BhagavadGita As It Is

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• Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
• Chapter 3
• Text 10-13.

Importance of Yajna. Sankirtan Yajna.
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Text 10

• saha-yajïäù prajäù såñövä
• puroväca prajäpatiù
• anena prasaviñyadhvam
• eña vo 'stv iñöa-käma-dhuk
• In the beginning of creation, the Lord of all
  creatures sent forth generations of men and
  demigods, along with sacrifices for Viñëu, and
  blessed them by saying, "Be thou happy by this
  yajïa sacrifice because its performance will
  bestow upon you everything desirable for living
  happily and achieving liberation."

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Yajna The purpose of creation

• Material creation a chance to conditioned souls
  to go back to Godhead.
• Praja pati The lord of all the living beings.
• The Lord created this material world to enable
  the conditioned souls to learn how to perform
  yajïas (sacrifices) for the satisfaction of
  Viñëu, so that while in the material world they
  can live very comfortably without anxiety and
  after finishing the present material body they
  can enter into the kingdom of God.

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Sankirtan-Yajna

• kåñëa-varëaà tviñäkåñëaà
• säìgopäìgästra-pärñadam
• yajïaiù saìkértana-präyair
• yajanti hi su-medhasaù
• "In this Age of Kali, people who are endowed with
  sufficient intelligence will worship the Lord,
  who is accompanied by His associates, by
  performance of saìkértana-yajïa."

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Text 11

• devän bhävayatänena
• te devä bhävayantu vaù
• parasparaà bhävayantaù
• çreyaù param aväpsyatha
• The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will
  also please you, and thus, by cooperation between
  men and demigods, prosperity will reign for all.

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The position of demigods

• The demigods - empowered adminis-trators of
  material affairs.
• Compared to different partsof the body of Lord.
• Demigods pleased by per-formance of sacrifices
  supply all necessities.
• All activities become purified.

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Text 12

• iñöän bhogän hi vo devä
• däsyante yajïa-bhävitäù
• tair dattän apradäyaibhyo
• yo bhuìkte stena eva saù
• In charge of the various necessities of life, the
  demigods, being satisfied by the performance of
  yajïa sacrifice, will supply all necessities to
  you. But he who enjoys such gifts without
  offering them to the demigods in return is
  certainly a thief.

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Atheisam the society of thieves.

• All sacrifices for Supreme, but one who does not
  know Supreme Lord, for him sacrifices to demigods
  recommended.
• All necessities of life supplied by demigods and
  cannot be produced by human society.
• No sacrifice thieves.e.g. No bill payment
  supply stops.or carpenter taking the furniture
  away.

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Text 13

• yajïa-çiñöäçinaù santo
• mucyante sarva-kilbiñaiù
• bhuïjate te tv aghaà päpä
• ye pacanty ätma-käraëät
• The devotees of the Lord are released from all
  kinds of sins because they eat food which is
  offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare
  food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat
  only sin.

• Even eating vegetarian food is sinful only food
  offer to Krishna is free from sin.
• Happiness through only sacrifices.
• Best sacrifice for present age is
  Sankirtan-Yajna, the congregational chanting of
  Krsnas Holy Names.