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II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

तरी ज्ञानयज्ञु एवंरूपु I तेथ आदिसंकल्पु हा यूपु I महाभूतें मंडपु I भेदु तो पशु II 239 II
मग पांचांचे जे विशेष गुण I आथवा इंद्रियें आणि प्राण I हेचि यज्ञोपचारभरण I अज्ञान घृत II 240 II
तेथ मनबुद्धीचिया कुंडा I आंतु ज्ञानाग्नि धडफुडा I साम्य तेचि सुहाडा I वेदिका जाणें II 241 II
सविवेकमतिपाटव I तेचि मंत्रविद्यागौरव I शांति स्रुकस्रुव I जीवु यज्वा II 242 II
तो प्रतीतीचेनि पात्रें I विवेकमहामंत्रें I ज्ञानाग्निहोत्रें I भेदु नाशी II 243 II
तेथ अज्ञान सरोनि जाये I आणि यजिता यजन हें ठाये I आत्मसमरसीं न्हाये I अवभृथीं जेव्हां II 244 II
तेव्हां भूतें विषय करणें I हें वेगळालें कांही न म्हणे I आघवें एकचि ऐसें जाणे I आत्मबुद्धि II 245 II
जैसा चेइला तो अर्जुना I म्हणे स्वप्नींची हे विचित्र सेना I मीचि जाहालों होतों ना I निद्रावशें II 246 II
आतां सेना ते सेना नव्हे I हे मीच एक आघवें I ऐसेन एकत्वें मानवे I विश्व तया II 247 II
मग तो जीवु हे भाष सरे I आब्रम्ह परमात्मबोधें भरे I ऐसे भजती ज्ञानाध्वरें I एकत्वें येणें II 248 II

"Lord Krishna said, let Me now illustrate Dnyan Yadnya. The Primordial Cause is the Yadnya Stambha or the pillar of sacrifice. Panchamahabhutas' are the pendal and duality is the animal of sacrifice tied to the Yadnya Stambha. The five sense perceptions – hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell, five sense organs and the five Pranas – Prana, Apana, Udana, Vyana and Samana – are the materials that contribute to yadnya and ignorance is the clarified butter. In the sacred fire pit made of mind and intellect, the KNOWLEDGE fire roars vigorously. The equanimity, where one remains balanced and unperturbed by pleasure and pain adorns the Vedika, the raised platform often used in vedic rituals. Vivek buddhi, the ability to discriminate between right and wrong is the power of Ved mantras'. Sruk and Sruva, the two essential implements used in the ritual of offering the clarified butter into the sacred fire represent tranquility and Jeev (individual soul) is the Yajaman, the person on whose behalf the ritual is performed. The Jeev through chanting Ved mantras offer oblation of duality into the sacred fire of KNOWLEDGE. With the destruction of the ignorance, the two-ness of the doer of yadnya and yadnya ceases. The clarified butter representing ignorance exhausts too. Absorbed in Self when the Jeev takes the ceremonial bath Avabhutha Snan signifying the conclusion of the vedic ritual, beings, senses, sense organs cease their distinct identities and comes true the spiritual enlightenment where one merges with the Supreme Reality. Someone waking up from deep slumber says that he became the whole army in the dream. But after waking up there is a realization that it was an illusion. There was only me. Similarly there is the realization that behind all multiplicity of this manifold universe, the One Unconditioned Substratum persists in all its splendor. With the realization of the unity between the individual self (Jeev) and full to the brim by the KNOWLEDGE of Self Realization, individual soul merges into the Universal Consciousness. This is My worship through Dnyan Yadnya."

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