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Adhyāyas / Jñāna-Karma-Sannyāsa Yogaḥ / verse 28

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
द्रव्ययज्ञास्तपोयज्ञा योगयज्ञास्तथापरे। स्वाध्यायज्ञानयज्ञाश्च यतयः संशितव्रताः
dravya-yajñās tapo-yajñā yoga-yajñās tathāpare swādhyāya-jñāna-yajñāśh cha yatayaḥ sanśhita-vratāḥ
Anuṣṭubh

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

Similarly, others are performers of sacrifices through wealth, through austerity, through yoga, and through study and knowledge; others are ascetics with severe vows.

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

कुछ (साधक) द्रव्ययज्ञ, तपयज्ञ और योगयज्ञ करने वाले होते हैं; और दूसरे कठिन व्रत करने वाले स्वाध्याय और ज्ञानयज्ञ करने वाले योगीजन होते हैं।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
द्रव्य यज्ञास् तपो यज्ञाः
योग यज्ञास् तथा परे
स्वाध्या यज्ञा न यज्ञाश् च
यतयस् संशितव् रताः
॥ २८ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
dravya-yajñāḥoffering one’s own wealth as sacrifice
tapaḥ-yajñāḥoffering severe austerities as sacrifice
yoga-yajñāḥperformance of eight-fold path of yogic practices as sacrifice
tathāthus
apareothers
swādhyāyacultivating knowledge by studying the scriptures
jñāna-yajñāḥthose offer cultivation of transcendental knowledge as sacrifice
chaalso
yatayaḥthese ascetics
sanśhita-vratāḥobserving strict vows

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
4.26–4.33The kinds of yajña.

Kṛṣṇa lists them like rungs of a ladder. Some offer the senses into the fire of restraint; some offer the sense-objects into the fire of the senses; some offer all the functions of the senses and the breath into the fire of self-control kindled by knowledge. Some sacrifice with wealth, some by austerity, some by yoga; some by the study of scripture and by knowledge (svādhyāya-jñāna-yajña); some by the disciplined regulation of the in-breath and out-breath (prāṇāyāma); some by moderating their food. Every one of these is a genuine offering. But the conclusion (4.33) is decisive: the sacrifice of Knowledge (jñāna-yajña) is greater than any sacrifice of things, “for all action, without exception, culminates in Knowledge.” The material offerings purify; Knowledge liberates.