Bhagavad Gita 4.29-30

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Sri:

Sri Lakshminrisimha Parabrahmane Namaha

Sri Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Nigamantha Mahadesikaya Namaha

 

SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA

- translation by Sri.V.N.Gopala Desikan

 

Continuation to the listing of nine kinds of karma yOgAs

which started from slOkA - 25

 

slOkA 29-30

 

apAnE juhvathi prAnam prAne apAnam tathApare

prAnApana-gathi ruddhvA prAnAyAma-parAyanAh

 

apare niyatAhArAh prAnAn prAneshu juhvati

sarve-pyete yajna-vido yajna-kshapita-kalmashah

 

Translation :

apare - Others

parAyanAh: - devoted to

prAnAyama - prAnAyamA

niyatAhArAh - and having controlled diet

juhvati - do hOmA

prAnAn - of prAnA

apAnE - in ApanA(i.e . puraka),

tathA - and (some others do hOmA)

apAnam - of apAna

prAnE - in prAna(i.e. rechaka),

apare - Some others

ruddhvA - controlling

prAna apAna-gathi - the movement of prAna and apAna

juhvati - do hOmA

prAnAm - of prAnAs

prAneshu - in prAnAs (i.e. Kumbhaka).

sarve api - All

etE - these

yajnA-vido - knowers of yajnAs

kalmashA: - have their sins

kshapita - destroyed

yajna - by yajnAs

 

Others devoted to prAnayamA and having controlled diet

do hOmA of prAnA in apAnA(i.e. puraka), and (some others

do hOmA) of apAnA in prAnA(i.e. rechaka). Some others

controlling the movement of prAnA and apAnA do hOmA of

prAnAs in prAnAs (i.e. kumbhaka).All these knowers of

yajnAs have their sins destroyed by yajnAs.

 

Commentary :

 

9) Another kind of karma yOgA is doing prAnAyamA, simultaneously

restricting the diet, i.e, food in-take . This prAnAyamA consists

of three items

1) rechaka

2) puraka

3) kumbhaka

Rechaka means exhaling the air from lungs and stomach. Puraka

means deeply inhaling the air into lungs. Kumbhaka means retaining

the inhaled air in the body, for some time, after stopping both

inhalation and exhalation. So, these are also practised as a

type of karma yOgA.

People who adopt any of the various types of karma yOgA

described above, also perform rituals, which are compulsary

(nitya and naimittika karmAs); and also the five great yajnAs

(pancha mahA yajnA). Thereby their sins are all destroyed.

 

adiyEn,

balaji

 

(Courtesy : Sri Visishtadvaita Research Centre)