दैवमेवापरे यज्ञं योगिनः पर्युपासते।ब्रह्माग्नावपरे यज्ञं यज्ञेनैवोपजुह्वति॥
daivam evāpare yajñaṃ yoginaḥ paryupāsatebrahmāgnāvapare yajñaṃ yajñenaivopajuhvati
Word by word
The verse says
Some who practise make their offering to the powers above. Others pour the offering itself into the fire of the infinite.
In plain words
The catalogue begins. Different people, different offerings.
Some offer to the devas — the powers behind things. Others offer the sacrifice itself into brahman.
Krishna is about to list at least a dozen ways of doing this, and he grades none of them.
Where you've felt this · in relationships
Two people in a long marriage who keep it going by completely different means. One talks everything through. One shows up every single time. Neither has ever managed the other's method.
Going deeper
What follows from here to verse 30 is a catalogue, and the shape of it is the teaching.
Krishna lists ritual offering, sense restraint, breath control, study, wealth given away, austerity, the eight-limbed practice, and more. Some are outward. Some are entirely internal. Some would have been recognised as religion by his listeners; some would not.
And he does not rank them. There is no this one is superior until verse 33, and even there the judgement is about a category rather than a person.
The effect is to widen yajña until it covers almost any disciplined life. Which is the same move 3.9 started and 4.24 completed in principle.
For a reader the payoff is practical. Whatever you are actually able to do, some version of it appears on this list. The Gita is not describing a path you must switch onto. It is describing what you are already doing, done with something released.