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ब्रह्मार्पणं ब्रह्महविर्ब्रह्माग्नौ ब्रह्मणा हुतम्। ब्रह्मैव तेन गन्तव्यं ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना।।4.24।।

brahmārpaṇaṁ brahma havir brahmāgnau brahmaṇā hutam brahmaiva tena gantavyaṁ brahma-karma-samādhinā

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 4, Verse 24
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Brahman is the oblation; Brahman is the melted butter (ghee); by Brahman is the oblation poured into the fire of Brahman; Brahman indeed shall be attained by one who always sees Brahman in action.

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Why: Brahman is the offering, Brahman is the oblation, offered by Brahman into the fire of Brahman, and Brahman is attained by one whose every action is Brahman, using a single word repeatedly to dissolve the distinction between giver, gift, and receiver.

In life: when you fully lose yourself in an act of genuine generosity, the usual separation between you, the gift, and the person receiving it can briefly disappear.

Teaching: notice, next time you give something freely and fully, whether that boundary between giver and receiver softens for a moment, and try to recreate that quality more often.

brahmaBrahman
arpaṇamthe ladle and other offerings
brahmaBrahman
haviḥthe oblation
brahmaBrahman
agnauin the sacrificial fire
brahmaṇāby that person
hutamoffered
brahmaBrahman
evacertainly
tenaby that
gantavyamto be attained
brahmaBrahman
karmaoffering
samādhināthose completely absorbed in God-consciousness

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
4.24 ब्रह्म Brahman? अर्पणम् the oblation? ब्रह्म Brahman? हविः the clarified butter? ब्रह्माग्नौ in the fire of Brahman? ब्रह्मणा by Brahman? हुतम् is offered? ब्रह्म Brahman? एव only? तेन by him? गन्तव्यम् shall be reached? ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना by the man who is absorbed in action which is Brahman.Commentary This is JnanaYajna or wisdomsacrifice wherein the idea of Brahman is substituted for the ideas of the instrument and other accessories of action? the idea of action itself and of its results. By entertaining such an idea the whole action melts away? as stated in the previous verse (No.23).When one attains to the knowledge of the Self or Selfrealisation his whole life becomes a wisdomsacrifice in which the oblation? the melted butter or the offering? the performer of the sacrifice? the action and the goal are all Brahman. He who meditates thus wholly upon Brahman shall verily attain to Brahman.The sage who has the knowledge of the Self knows that the oblation? the fire? the instrument by which the melted butter is poured into the fire and himself have no existence apart from that of Brahman. He who has realised through direct cognitio (Anubhava) that all is Brahman? does no action even if he performs actions. (Cf.III.15)