Bhagavad Gita BG 4.30
Chapter 4, Verse 30 — Meaning, Translation & Explanation
अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति । सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः ॥
apare niyataharan pranan praneshu juhvati sarve 'py ete yajna-vido yajna-kshapita-kalmashash
Meaning
Others, with regulated food intake, offer the vital breaths into vital breaths. All of these are knowers of yajna, their impurities destroyed by yajna.
Understanding
Yet another yajna: niyatahara (regulated eating — restraining the food intake as offering). And pranan praneshu juhvati — offering vital breaths into vital breaths (a subtle internal practice of merging all the pranas into the central prana). Then the inclusive summary: sarve api ete (all of these people — from the ritual-fire worshipper to the pranayama practitioner to the regulated eater) are yajna-vidah (knowers of yajna — true understanders of sacrifice). Yajna-kshapita-kalmashash — their impurities are destroyed (kshapita — wasted away, consumed) by their yajna.
Word by Word
| Word | IAST | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| नियताहाराः | niyatahara | with regulated food/diet |
| यज्ञविदः | yajna-vidah | knowers of yajna, understanders of sacrifice |
| क्षपित | kshapita | destroyed, consumed, wasted away |
| कल्मषाः | kalmashash | impurities, sins, stains |
| अपरे | apare | yet others / still other practitioners |
| प्राणान् | prāṇān | the vital airs / prāṇa breaths |
| प्राणेषु | prāṇeṣu | in the vital airs / into the prāṇas |
| जुह्वति | juhvati | offer / pour as oblation |
| सर्वे | sarve | all (these practitioners) |
| अपि | api | even / also |
| एते | ete | these (all of them) |