CH 3, Verse 10

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Chapter 3

Verse 10

 

Saha yaGnaaH prajaaH sRishhTvaa puro'vaacha

PrajaapatiH /

anena prasavishhyadhvam eshha vo'stva ishhTa-kaamadhuk

//

 

Having created mankind together with Yajna in the

beginning, Prajapati (the Creator) said, "by this

sacrifice shall you multiply. This shall be the

milch-cow of your desires."

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 18

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

 

“Having created mankind together with Yajna in the

beginning, Prajapati (the Creator) said, ‘by this

sacrifice shall you multiply. This shall be the

milch-cow of your desires.”

 

God created mankind along with sacrifice or Yajna.

That means sacrifice was born with man. Then the

creator said, “By this sacrifice you multiply.”

 

The idea is a man can prosper by performing actions in

the spirit of Yajna. Non-performers of Yajna have no

place in the scheme of God. They will definitely get

destroyed. On the other hand, performers of Yajna

would secure everything they wish. So Yajna is

compared to the mythological milch-cow, the owner of

which gets all his desires fulfilled by the blessings

of the cow.

 

If you look at the universe, you can find every object

in it performing Yajna. The sun shines to give light

to us. The moon, the planets and stars shine and give

delight to us. The cloud forms in the sky and pours

down as rains for the benefit of the world. The

Mother Earth supports everything that lives on it.

The oceans, the rivers, the trees, plants and herbs,

in short, all things in the universe exist, not for

themselves, but for the sake of others. Thus all

these objects in the world are doing sacrifice (Yajna)

quite naturally, although they are inanimate and do

not know that they are born with sacrifice. Man, the

rational being that he is, must sacrifice that too in

a world sustained by sacrifice, and so it behooves him

to perform his actions in the spirit of sacrifice, and

that is the only way to enrich his life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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