यज्ञशिष्टाशिनः सन्तो मुच्यन्ते सर्वकिल्बिषैः।भुञ्जते ते त्वघं पापा ये पचन्त्यात्मकारणात्॥
yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥbhuñjate te tvaghaṃ pāpā ye pacantyātma-kāraṇāt
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
Good people eat what is left after the offering, and they are freed of all that clings to them. Those who cook only for themselves are eating something else.
सरल शब्दों में
A picture from an ordinary kitchen.
You offer first, and eat what remains. That is the old practice, and it is still done in many houses.
The contrast is stark: cooking ātma-kāraṇāt, for one's own sake alone. Krishna says such a person eats agham — harm, the thing that sticks.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
A family where whoever cooks eats last, out of habit, without comment. It is a small thing and nobody would describe it as a principle. The house has a different temperature because of it.
और गहराई में
This is a practice before it is a philosophy, and it is worth knowing that it survives — food offered before it is eaten, in temples and in ordinary kitchens, daily.
What the Gita is doing is giving that habit a general form. The order matters: offer, then eat the remainder. Not eat and be grateful afterwards, which is the modern compromise.
Yajña-śiṣṭa — what is left over from the offering. There is a strange dignity in the word. The remainder is not second-best; it is what has been made fit to eat by the fact that it was not claimed first.
The harsh half needs holding lightly. Pāpāḥ, usually rendered sinners, is closer to those who are harming themselves — consistent with 2.51, where the whole condition was framed as illness rather than crime.
Eating alone is not being condemned. Eating as though nothing arrived from anywhere is.