The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 5.1.. Swami Krishnananda.
------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 13, 2020. 09 : 53. AM. Chapter 5: Life as a Yajna or Sacrifice - 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. In the middle of the fourth chapter of the Gita, certain instructions are given on the performance of different kinds of sacrifice, known as yajnas. The word 'yajna' is a very significant one throughout the Bhagavadgita, perhaps through most of the scriptures in India, indicating that the principle of life consists in sacrifice of some sort or the other. The philosophy of India may, in a way, be summed up by the word 'yajna' – sacrifice. Every moment of our life is a sacrifice that we perform in the direction of a higher fulfillment, and a sacrifice is therefore a gain and not a loss. In ordinary language we praise a person who has performed a sacrifice, thinking that sacrifice involves a sharing of one's joy with others, in a sense a sort of loss which...