BG 4.30-31a

अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति ।
सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः ॥
यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम् ।
apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvati
sarve ’py ete yajña-vido yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ
yajña-śiṣṭāmṛta-bhujo yānti brahma sanātanam

Word-for-word meanings

apare — others;  niyata — regulating;  āhārāḥ — their intake of food;  juhvati — sacrifice;  prāṇān — the functions of the senses;  prāṇeṣu — into the vital life currents [which enable the sense operations];  api — indeed;  sarve — all;  ete — these;  yajña-vidaḥ — knowers of yajña;  kalmaṣāḥ — whose unmeritorious acts;  yajña-kṣapita — are purified by yajña;  amṛta-bhujaḥ — [and] who partake in the ambrosia;  yajña-śiṣṭa — [of] the remnants of yajña;  yānti — attain;  sanātanam — the eternal;  brahma — Brahman, the Supreme Absolute.

Translation

Others, who regulate their intake of food, sacrifice the functions of the senses into the vital life currents [which enable the sense operations]. Indeed, all these knowers of yajña, who are purified of their unmeritorious acts through the performance of yajña and who partake in the ambrosial remnants of yajña, attain the eternal Brahman, the Supreme Absolute.

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