Bhagavad Gita 4.31 Meaning: Yajnashishtamritabhujo yanti

Bhagavad Gita 4.31

यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम् ।नायं लोकोऽस्त्ययज्ञस्य कुतोऽन्यः कुरुसत्तम ॥

Yajnashishtamritabhujo yanti brahma sanatanamNayam lokostyayajnasya kutonyah kurusattama

yajñaśiṣṭāmṛtabhujo yānti brahma sanātanam |nāyaṃ loko’styayajñasya kuto’nyaḥ kurusattama ||

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Our explanation Those who eat what remains of the offering, which is like amṛta (the nectar of immortality), reach the eternal Brahman, Krishna says. Even this world, he adds, is not for one who makes no offering; how then the other world?

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण कहते हैं कि जो यज्ञ से बचे हुए अमृत जैसे अन्न को खाते हैं, वे सनातन ब्रह्म को प्राप्त होते हैं। वे जोड़ते हैं कि जो यज्ञ नहीं करता, उसके लिए यह लोक भी नहीं है, फिर दूसरा लोक कैसे होगा?

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यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजः yajñaśiṣṭāmṛtabhujaḥ · who eat the amṛta left from yajña (compound (masculine), nominative plural) Dictionary: yajña, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 839, col. 2 “worship, devotion, prayer, praise; act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice”; 1. śiṣṭa, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1076, col. 3 “left, remaining, escaped, residual”; a-mṛta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 82, col. 2 “immortality”; 3. bhuj, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 759, col. 2 “to enjoy, use, possess”
यान्ति yānti · reach (present, 3rd person plural) Dictionary: 1. yā, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 849, col. 1 “to go, proceed, move, walk, set out”
ब्रह्म brahma · Brahman (noun (neuter), accusative singular) Dictionary: brahman, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 738, col. 1 “one self-existent impersonal Spirit, the one universal Soul”
सनातनम् sanātanam · eternal (adjective (neuter), accusative singular) Dictionary: sanātana, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1141, col. 1 “eternal, perpetual, permanent, everlasting, primeval, ancient”
न na · not (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. na, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 523, col. 1 “ind. not, no, nor, neither”
अयम् ayam · this (pronoun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: 1. idam, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 165, col. 2 “this, this here, referring to something near the speaker”
लोकः lokaḥ · world (noun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: loka, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 906, col. 1 “the wide space or world”
अस्ति asti · is (present, 3rd person singular) Dictionary: 1. as, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 117, col. 2 “to be, live, exist, be present”
अयज्ञस्य ayajñasya · for one who makes no offering (noun (masculine), genitive singular) Dictionary: a-yajña, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 84, col. 3 “not offering a sacrifice”
कुतः kutaḥ · how then (indeclinable) Dictionary: kutas, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 290, col. 2 “from where? whence?”
अन्यः anyaḥ · the other (world) (pronoun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: 2. anya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 45, col. 2 “other, different”
कुरुसत्तम kurusattama · O best of the Kurus (compound (masculine), vocative singular) Dictionary: kuru, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 294, col. 1; sat-tama, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1134, col. 3 “very good or right, the best, first, chief of (gen. or comp.)”

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