Chapter 4 Part 3
Karma Yajna ~ Brahma Yajna
A jnani do all karmas as yajna. Yajna which is done in the aim of attaining Brahma can be called as Brahma-yajna.
In a yajna which is done as offerings to brahma, the sacrificial fire is brahma, the thing which is offered is brahma, the person who does yajna also is brahma. The result of that yajna also is brahma. Sarvam Brahma, everything is Brahma. For a person who does all karma as an offering to brahma, his karma become brahma yajna. Brahma jnana becomes sacrificial fire. Vishaya is the thing which is offered in the sacrificial fire. This type of yajna helps to attain Brahma.
Those who desire for worldly pleasures, do yajna as an offering to gods or devas and enjoy result of yajna as prosperity in this world. Some others do all karma as sacrifice in the fire of Brahma(brahmagni).
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Others sacrifice vishaya on indriya-agni. When indriya experience vishaya, if that does not produce any raaga or dwesha (likes or dislikes, attachment or aversion) in mind and this is sacrificing vishaya on indriya. Everything ends in the level of senses. When we enjoy vishayas do not get attached to the thing that we like or do not keep aversion to the things that we don't like. Some others sacrifice indriya on the agni(fire) of sense-restraint.They withdraw senses and turn inward. This is restraining of senses(sense control).
After conquering indriya in these two steps, all activities of indriya and prana spandana should be submitted on the agni of soul-restraint. What is soul-restraint? It is a state where all spandana(movement) of mind and prana are restrained. When senses are controlled, mind become quiet. Then budhi becomes single-pointed. Then prana spandana becomes controlled. Here soul starts to shine.
Thus, different types of yajna are designed to approach Brahma. Yajnas are performed not to get Brahma. That yajnas are for removing the bonds of karma. One becomes free from karma by doing karma as yajna. Through doing karma as yajna one can remove vasanas. When karma vasanas are removed completely, one can feel Brhamananda. Jnana yajna is considered superior to other yajnas. Because it is capable of helping one to attain liberation as soon as possible.
This athma jnana(spiritual knowledge) is to be learned from a guru who realized the soul or Brahma. A spiritual student should ask questions with proper humility. He realizes his own soul first. Then he experiences everything in his soul. Finally he will be able to see universe in Brahma. As soon as one remove all karma vasana by karma yajna he becomes free from all karma. He is free from another birth. So there is no relevance for sin or virtue. However sinful he is, he will be liberated by jnana. How? If there is jnana he does his karma in the way of destroying karma vasana (karma as yajna). Jnana marga can burn not only sins but also all karma.
Jnana or spiritual knowledge is the purest of everything in this world. Jnana gives a spiritual seeker the state of Brahma by releasing from all bonds of karma. Jnana can shine only in a mind of a person who has no vasana. So one has to be free from vasana through practicing karma yoga.
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