Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 - JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 30

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

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1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 4 -JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 30

 Serthi - Varadaraja perumal- Perundevi thayaar- Kanchipuram

Apare niyata harah pranan praneshu juhvati I

Sarve apyete yagna vidah yagna kshapita kalmashah II Sloka 30 

अपरे नियता हाराः पराणान प्राणेषु जुह्वति ।

सर्वे अप्येते यज्ञ विदः यज्ञ क्षपित कल्मषाः ।। श्लोक ३० 

Still others of regulated food habit offer in the pranas the functions thereof. All these are knowers of yagna, having their sins destroyed by yagna.

Partaking of wholesome food in a regulated manner is in itself an aspect of yoga. It is like tuning the veena, in order to bring out the best music from it. 

The modern medical world knows how to transfer warm and fresh blood from one body to another requiring to be revitalised. Eating and digesting is the natural way of vitalising the body. One conserves the life energy in oneself only by appropriating it from another life unit. Life lives on life. He, who is exclusively attached to his personal life is therefore a sinner. Performance of yagna is the only way of redeeming oneself from sin.  The individual life is dedicated to the service of the cosmic life, manifesting itself as millions of beings.  This is what is meant by offering the functions of the pranas in the pranas themselves. They who live for the common weal incur no sin.