Shloka 14
Cāturhotra as Inner Sacrifice (Yoga-Yajña) and Nārāyaṇa Recitation
गुणवत्पावको महां दीव्यते5न्त:शरीरग: । जो मनसे अवगत होता है
brāhmaṇa uvāca | guṇavat pāvako mahān dīvyate 'ntaḥśarīragaḥ | yogayajñaḥ pravṛtto me jñānavallīprado 'dbhutaḥ | prāṇastotraḥ apānaśastraḥ sarvatyāgasudakṣiṇaḥ |
माझ्या देहाच्या अंतःस्थानी गुणवान् महान् पावक तेजाने प्रकाशित होत आहे. मी योगरूपी यज्ञ आरंभ केला आहे, जो ज्ञानवल्लीचा उद्भव घडवितो. यात प्राण हे स्तोत्र आहे, अपान हे शस्त्र आहे आणि सर्वस्वाचा त्याग हीच उत्तम दक्षिणा आहे.
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
True sacrifice can be internalized: by restraining the senses and mind, one offers sense-objects back into disciplined awareness, making the self the altar. The ‘fire’ is the Supreme Self shining within, and the highest sacrificial gift is total renunciation.
A Brahmin speaker describes his spiritual practice as a ‘yoga-sacrifice.’ He reinterprets Vedic ritual elements symbolically—prāṇa as the chant, apāna as the implement, and renunciation as the dakṣiṇā—asserting that through this inner rite the Supreme Self becomes manifest within him.