Word meanings
- apare
- others
- niyata
- controlled
- āhārāḥ
- eating
- prāṇān
- outgoing air
- prāṇeṣu
- in the outgoing air
- sarve
- all
- api
- although apparently different
- ete
- all these
- yajñavidaḥ
- conversant with the purpose of performing
- yajña
- sacrifices
- kṣapita
- being cleansed of the result of such performances
- kalmaṣāḥ
- sinful reactions
- juhvati
- sacrifices.
Translations
Others who regulate their diet offer life-breaths in each life-breath. All these are knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are destroyed through sacrifice.
Others, controlling their diet, sacrifice their worldly life to the spiritual fire. All understand the principle of sacrifice, and by it their sins are washed away.
Others, having their food regulated, offer the vital forces in the vital forces. All of them are knowers of the sacrifice and have their sins destroyed by the sacrifice.
।।4.29 -- 4.30।। दूसरे कितने ही प्राणायामके परायण हुए योगीलोग अपानमें प्राणका पूरक करके, प्राण और अपानकी गति रोककर फिर प्राणमें अपानका हवन करते हैं; तथा अन्य कितने ही नियमित आहार करनेवाले प्राणोंका प्राणोंमें हवन किया करते हैं। ये सभी साधक यज्ञोंद्वारा पापोंका नाश करनेवाले और यज्ञोंको जाननेवाले हैं।Commentary
Niyataharah means persons of regulated or limited food. They take moderate food. By rigid dieting they control the passions and appetites by weakening the functions of the organs of action. Yogis pour the lifreaths as sacrifice in the controlled lifreath. The former becomes merged in the latter. Performance of the above sacrifice leads to the purification of the mind and destruction of sins.