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अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति। सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः।।4.30।।

apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvati sarve py 'ete yajña-vido yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 4, Verse 30
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Others who regulate their diet offer life-breaths in each life-breath. All these are knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are destroyed through sacrifice.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: all these people, knowers of sacrifice, have their sins destroyed by sacrifice, and having eaten the nectar remaining from sacrifice, they go to the eternal Brahman, again framing offering, in whatever form, as genuinely purifying.

In life: something completed in a spirit of offering, rather than pure self-interest, tends to leave you feeling settled rather than empty afterward.

Teaching: after finishing a demanding task, notice whether you feel emptied or settled, and if it's the former, examine whether self-interest crowded out any sense of offering in how you approached it.

apareothers
niyatacontrolled
āhārāḥeating
prāṇānoutgoing air
prāṇeṣuin the outgoing air
sarveall
apialthough apparently different
eteall these
yajñavidaḥconversant with the purpose of performing
yajñasacrifices
kṣapitabeing cleansed of the result of such performances
kalmaṣāḥsinful reactions
juhvatisacrifices.

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
4.30 अपरे other persons? नियताहाराः of regulated food? प्राणान् lifreaths? प्राणेषु in the lifreaths? जुह्वति sacrifice? सर्वे all? अपि also? एते these? यज्ञविदः knowers of sacrifice? यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः whose sins are destroyed by sacrifice.Commentary Niyataharah means persons of regulated or limited food. They take moderate food. By rigid dieting they control the passions and appetites by weakening the functions of the organs of action.Yogis pour the lifreaths as sacrifice in the controlled lifreath. The former becomes merged in the latter.Performance of the above sacrifice leads to the purification of the mind and destruction of sins.