Mūla — the verse
Gita Press numberingTranslation
Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣyaThe ladle is Brahman, the oblations are Brahman, and the offering is poured by Brahman into the fire of Brahman. He who has concentration on Brahman as the objective can only reach Brahman.
हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda
अर्पण (अर्थात् अर्पण करने का साधन श्रुवा) ब्रह्म है और हवि (शाकल्य अथवा हवन करने योग्य द्रव्य) भी ब्रह्म है; ब्रह्मरूप अग्नि में ब्रह्मरूप कर्ता के द्वारा जो हवन किया गया है, वह भी ब्रह्म ही है। इस प्रकार ब्रह्मरूप कर्म में समाधिस्थ पुरुष का गन्तव्य भी ब्रह्म ही है।।
Pronunciation — Vaamshii
from VaamshiiWord by word
padārthaMeaning — Questions & Solutions
from Q&A with KnA“Brahmārpaṇaṁ brahma haviḥ …” — the offering is Brahman, the oblation is Brahman, poured by Brahman into the fire of Brahman; Brahman alone is reached by one absorbed in Brahman as his work. This is the great mantra of seeing the one Reality in every part of an act. For the realised, the ladle, the ghee, the fire, the priest and the goal are not five things but one Brahman appearing as five. Read outwardly it is a ritual formula; read inwardly it dissolves the very division of doer, doing and done, which is the last knot of the ego. Everything is Brahman — not as a slogan, but as a way of acting in which nothing is left outside the Whole to be grasped or feared.