Bhagavad Gita 4.29अपाने जुह्वति प्राण प्राणेऽपानं तथाऽपरे।प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः ॥
apāne juhvati prāṇaṁ prāṇe ’pānaṁ tathāpare prāṇāpāna-gatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇāḥ
apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣhu juhvati sarve ’pyete yajña-vido yajña-kṣhapita-kalmaṣhāḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Every act can be sacred · 4.24–4.33 · Teaching
Translation
Others offer as sacrifice the outgoing breath into the incoming, and the incoming into the outgoing, restraining the flow of the outgoing and the incoming breaths, solely absorbed in the restraint of the breath.
Hindi translation
।।4.29 -- 4.30।। दूसरे कितने ही प्राणायामके परायण हुए योगीलोग अपानमें प्राणका पूरक करके, प्राण और अपानकी गति रोककर फिर प्राणमें अपानका हवन करते हैं; तथा अन्य कितने ही नियमित आहार करनेवाले प्राणोंका प्राणोंमें हवन किया करते हैं। ये सभी साधक यज्ञोंद्वारा पापोंका नाश करनेवाले और यज्ञोंको जाननेवाले हैं।
Meaning
Some Yogis practise Puraka (inhalation), some Yogis practise Rechaka (exhalation),,and some Yogis practise Kumbhaka (retention of breath).The five subPranas and the other Pranas are merged in the chief Prana (MukhyaPrana) by the practice of Pranayama. When the Prana is controlled, the mind also stops its wanderings and becomes steady the senses are also thinned out and merged in the Prana. It is through the vibration of Prana that the activities of the mind and the senses are kept up. If the Prana is controlled, the mind, the intellect and the senses cease to function.
After Swami Sivananda
Every act can be sacred· 4.24–4.33→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 4.24Brahman is the oblation; Brahman is the melted butter (ghee); by Brahman is the oblation…
- 4.25Some yogis perform sacrifice to the gods alone; while others, who have realized the Self,…
- 4.26Some again offer the organ of hearing and other senses as a sacrifice in the fire of…
- 4.27Others again sacrifice all the functions of the senses and those of the breath (vital…
- 4.28Others again offer wealth, austerity, and Yoga as sacrifice, while ascetics of…
4.29Others offer as sacrifice the outgoing breath into the incoming, and the incoming into the…
- 4.30Others who regulate their diet offer life-breaths in each life-breath. All these are…
- 4.31Those who eat the remnants of the sacrifice, which are like nectar, go to the eternal…
- 4.32Thus, manifold sacrifices are spread out before Brahman at the face of Brahman. Know them…
- 4.33Superior is wisdom-sacrifice to the sacrifice with objects, O Parantapa (scorcher of the…
Word-by-word→
- api
- also
- ete
- these
- apare
- others
- gatī
- movement
- sarve
- all
- apāna
- and the incoming breath
- apāne
- the incoming breath
- niyata
- having controlled
- tathā
- also
- apānam
- incoming breath
- juhvati
- sacrifice
- prāṇa
- of the outgoing breath
- prāṇe
- in the outgoing breath
- ruddhvā
- blocking
- prāṇam
- the outgoing breath
- prāṇān
- life-breaths
- āhārāḥ
- food intake
- prāṇeṣhu
- life-energy
- kalmaṣhāḥ
- of impurities
- yajña-vidaḥ
- knowers of sacrifices
- parāyaṇāḥ
- wholly devoted apare—others
- prāṇa-āyāma
- control of breath
- yajña-kṣhapita
- being cleansed by performances of sacrifices
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