Chapter 4 verse 30
“Others with well regulated diet, offer vital-airs in the
Vital-air. All these are knower of sacrifice, whose sins are destroyed by
sacrifice”
In the earlier verse, regulation of life energies through
breath was referred. In this verse, Lord is expanding that field of energy to
intake, processing and output. Adi Shankara in his sadhana panchakam instructs
us to treat hunger as a disease and treat it such. In other words, he is
instructing us to eat right and regulate our diet. Lord in this verse is also
doing the same. Management of bodily energy when done right could line up all
the resplendent energies of the universe to aid oneself to the Self. When a
person offers every breath they take or morsel of food consumed as an offering
of sacrifice to the supreme, they are only performing desire less action and
thus destroying the previous vasanas or sins to march toward Self.
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