Chapter 4 verse 28
“Others again offer wealth, austerity and yoga as
sacrifice, while the ascetics of self-restraint and rigid vows offer study of
scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice”
Krishna in earlier few verses had focused on detachment
from senses and into the Self as offering for fire of ultimate knowledge. In
this verse, he is talking about the ability of different persons to offer
whatever their primary action or life mission entails as an offering to the
divine. The wealthy offer their wealth, the meditators their austerity and
practices, the ascetics and sages their detachment itself and the teachers and practitioner
of Vedas, the knowledge of the scriptures to divine. The message is quite
clear. All actions when done in an act of sacrifice leaves no trace of any
tendencies and hence helps understand the Self.
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