Chapter 4Verse 32 of 42

Bhagavad Gita 4.32

एवं बहुविधा यज्ञा वितता ब्रह्मणो मुखे । कर्मजान्विद्धि तान्सर्वानेवं ज्ञात्वा विमोक्ष्यसे ॥

evaṃ bahu-vidhā yajñā vitatā brahmaṇo mukhe | karma-jān viddhi tān sarvān evaṃ jñātvā vimokṣyase ||

Translation

Thus many forms of sacrifice are spread out in the mouth of Brahman. Know all of them to be born of action; and so knowing, you shall be released.

Brahmaṇo mukhe vitatāḥ. Spread in the mouth of Brahman. The verse closes the catalog with an image: the sacrifices are food in the mouth of the absolute. Karma-jān viddhi, know them as born of action. The student is being told that none of the sacrifices fall outside the chapter's frame: all of them are forms of work, done with the right operator, with the result handed back. Evaṃ jñātvā vimokṣyase, knowing this, you will be free.

Reflection

Which of your offerings have you been treating as inner-only that started as a concrete act?

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