अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति।सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः॥
apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvatisarve py 'ete yajña-vido yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ
Word by word
The verse says
Others hold back what they eat and pour the breaths into the breath. All of these understand offering, and what is unclean in them is worn away by it.
In plain words
The catalogue closes, and the closing line is the point.
One more practice: regulating food.
And then: sarve api ete yajña-vidaḥ - all of these, every one of them, know what offering is. No ranking. One category.
Where you've felt this · in family life
In one family, one person prays every morning. One cooks for everybody. One fixes whatever is broken. One simply turns up whenever anything happens. Nobody has ever discussed which of those counts.
Going deeper
Sarve api ete - all of these too. The api is generous and it does the work of the whole passage.
Six verses have listed practices that look nothing like each other: temple offering, sense withdrawal, sense engagement, breath control, wealth, austerity, study, diet. Some are physically demanding, some are entirely interior, some cost money and some cost nothing.
And the verdict is one sentence covering all of them. They know what offering is.
Their impurities, the verse says, are worn away by the offering. Kṣapita suggests wearing down by slow rubbing rather than removal at a stroke.
That is a realistic picture of how any of these actually work. Nothing on this list transforms someone on a Tuesday. They wear at something, over years, and the person notices later that it has thinned.
And the effect on a reader is deliberate. Whatever you can actually sustain is on this list, and the Gita has declined to tell you that the one you can manage is the lesser one.