Shloka 30
ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga
Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint
अपरे नियताहारा: प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुद्बति | सर्वेड्प्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषा:
apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvati | sarve 'py ete yajñavido yajñakṣapitakalmaṣāḥ ||
Others, disciplined in their intake of food, offer their very life-breaths into the life-breaths—practising inner sacrifice through regulated vital energies. All these, being knowers of sacrifice, have their impurities worn away by sacrificial discipline.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
True yajña is not limited to external ritual; disciplined self-regulation—especially of food and the vital energies—can itself be an inner sacrifice that purifies the practitioner.
Arjuna describes different kinds of sacrificial practitioners. Here he points to ascetics who regulate diet and perform an inward offering of the life-breaths into the life-breaths, and he concludes that such people are genuine knowers of yajña whose faults are reduced through their practice.