अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति।सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः॥
apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvatisarve py 'ete yajña-vido yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
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.
सरल शब्दों में
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.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
A family where one person prays, one cooks for everybody, one fixes things, and one just turns up whenever anything happens. Nobody has ever discussed which of these counts.
और गहराई में
Sarve api ete — all of these too. The api is generous and it is doing 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.
Yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ — their impurities worn away by offering. Kṣapita suggests wearing down by attrition 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.