Guest guest Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 21. Free from desire, with the mind and the self controlled, having relinquished all possessions doing mere bodily action, he incurs no sin. 22. Satisfied with what comes to him by chance, rising above the pairs of opposites, free from envy, equanimous in success and failure, though acting he is not bound. 23. Of the man whose attachment is gone, who is liberated, whose mind is established in knowledge, who acts for the sake of sacrifice - his whole action melts away. 24. Brahman is the offering, Brahman the oblation; by Brahman is the oblation poured into the fire of Brahman; Brahman verily shall be reached by him who always sees Brahman in action. 25. Other Yogins resort to sacrifices to Gods; In the fire of Brahman others offer the self by the self. 26. Others offer hearing and other senses in the fires of restraint; others offer sound and other objects in the fires of the senses. 27. And others sacrifice all the functions of the senses and the functions of the vitality in the wisdom-kindled fire of the Yoga of Self-restraint. 28. Others are sacrificers by their wealth, sacrificers by austerity, sacrificers by yogas, sacrificers by reading and knowledge, ascetics of rigid vows. 29. Others offer prana (outgoing breath) in apana (incoming breath) and apana in prana, restraining the passages of prana and apana, absorbed in Pranayama (restraint of breath). 30. Others, with regulated food, offer life-breaths in life-breaths. All these are knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are destroyed by sacrifice. to be continued... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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