The document discusses different types of "yajnas" or sacrifices described in the Bhagavad Gita that people can perform, including sacrifices of the senses, mind, self-restraint, wealth, study, knowledge, breath, and diet. It provides examples of different yogis who perform sacrifices through controlling their senses, breath, study of scriptures, or offering their actions and abilities. True knowledge is attained by seeing the divine in all actions and offerings.
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CHINMAYAMISSIONBOSTON
The Holy Geeta
Chapter 4
2. Quick Recap
• Chapter 3 (Karma Yoga):
Always DO the RIGHT ACTION with the RIGHT ATTITUDE
3. Chapter 4 – Karma Jnana Sannyasa Yoga – Ending Action in Knowledge
• When and why does Bhagawan take an Avatar
Whenever there is an increase in adharma
To protect the righteous and destroy the wicked
• Four-fold Caste system
Man kind is divided into four kinds people (Kshatriya, Brahmana, Vysya,
Shudra) based on their
o Temperament – Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas
o Attitude to work
This was later mis-used to propagate division of classes by birth
• Realized one is one who sees
Inaction in Action AND
Action in Inaction
• Anyone can reach me by adopting the 12-fold ‘yagna’ or sacrifice spirit
Daiva - puja
Brahma – self-inquiry
Indriya – sense control
Mano – mind control
Atma Samyama - Self restraint
Dravya - Wealth
Tapo - austerity
Yoga - Ashtanga
Swadyaya – Daily study
Jnana - Knowledge
Pranayama – Five Pranas
Niyatahara - Diet
5. Chapter 4 – Karma Jnana Sannyasa Yoga – Ending Action in Knowledge
• When and why does Bhagawan take an Avatar
Whenever there is an increase in adharma
To protect the righteous and destroy the wicked
• Four-fold Caste system
Man kind is divided into four kinds people (Kshatriya, Brahmana, Vysya,
Shudra) based on their
o Temperament – Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas
o Attitude to work
This was later mis-used to propagate division of classes by birth
• Realized one is one who sees
Inaction in Action AND
Action in Inaction
• Anyone can reach me by adopting the 12-fold ‘yagna’ or sacrifice spirit
Daiva - puja
Brahma – self-inquiry
Indriya – sense control
Mano – mind control
Atma Samyama - Self restraint
Dravya - Wealth
Tapo - austerity
Yoga - Ashtanga
Swadyaya – Daily study
Jnana - Knowledge
Pranayama – Five Pranas
Niyatahara - Diet
10. Chapter 4 – Karma Jnana Sannyasa Yoga – Ending Action in Knowledge
• When and why does Bhagawan take an Avatar
Whenever there is an increase in adharma
To protect the righteous and destroy the wicked
• Four-fold Caste system
Man kind is divided into four kinds people (Kshatriya, Brahmana, Vysya,
Shudra) based on their
o Temperament – Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas
o Attitude to work
This was later mis-used to propagate division of classes by birth
• Realized one is one who sees
Inaction in Action AND
Action in Inaction
• Anyone can reach me by adopting the 12-fold ‘yagna’ or sacrifice spirit
Daiva - puja
Brahma – self-inquiry
Indriya – sense control
Mano – mind control
Atma Samyama - Self restraint
Dravya - Wealth
Tapo - austerity
Yoga - Ashtanga
Swadyaya – Daily study
Jnana - Knowledge
Pranayama – Five Pranas
Niyatahara - Diet
11. Chapter 4 – Inaction in Action
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12. Chapter 4 – Inaction in Action
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13. Chapter 4 – Inaction in Action
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14. Chapter 4 – Karma Jnana Sannyasa Yoga – Ending Action in Knowledge
• When and why does Bhagawan take an Avatar
Whenever there is an increase in adharma
To protect the righteous and destroy the wicked
• Four-fold Caste system
Man kind is divided into four kinds people (Kshatriya, Brahmana, Vysya,
Shudra) based on their
o Temperament – Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas
o Attitude to work
This was later mis-used to propagate division of classes by birth
• Realized one is one who sees
Inaction in Action AND
Action in Inaction
• Anyone can reach me by adopting the 12-fold ‘yagna’ or sacrifice spirit
Daiva - puja
Brahma – self-inquiry
Indriya – sense control
Mano – mind control
Atma Samyama - Self restraint
Dravya - Wealth
Tapo - austerity
Yoga - Ashtanga
Swadyaya – Daily study
Jnana - Knowledge
Pranayama – Five Pranas
Niyatahara - Diet
15. Chapter 4 – ENDING ACTION IN KNOWLEDGE
24. BRAHMAN is the oblation; BRAHMAN is the clarified butter, etc.,
constituting the offerings; by BRAHMAN is the oblation poured into the
fire of BRAHMAN; BRAHMAN verily shall be reached by him who
always sees BRAHMAN in all actions
• The deity invoked
• The fire in which the offerings are poured
• The material things that constitute the offerings
• The individual who is performing the Yagna
16. Chapter 4 – ENDING ACTION IN KNOWLEDGE
1. Deva-Yajna (25)–Sacrifice of sense-objects
2. Brahma-Yajna (25)– Sacrifice of the Self to the Self
3. Yajna of sense control (26)
4. Yajna of Mind Control (26)
5. Yajna of Self Restraint (27)
6. Dravya- Yajna (28) – Offering of Wealth
7. Tapo Yajna (28) –Offering of pleasures and living in austerity
8. Yoga Yajna (28) – Worship of the Lord-of-the-heart
9. Svadhyaya Yajna (28) – Study of scriptures
10. Jnana Yajna (28) - Sacrifice of Knowledge
11. Pranayama Yajna (29) – Sacrifice of Pranas
12. Niyata hara Yajna (30) – Sacrifice of vital air sheaths
17. Chapter 4 – ENDING ACTION IN KNOWLEDGE
Bliss
Sheath
Intellectual
Sheath
Mental Sheath
Vital-Air Sheath
Food Sheath Deva Yajna
Brahma Yajna
Yoga Yajna
Yajna of sense control
Yajna of mind control
Tapo Yajna
Yajna of self restraint
Svadhyaya Yajna
Jnana Yajna
Dravya Yajna
Pranayama Yajna
Niyata hara Yajna
18. Chapter 4 – ENDING ACTION IN KNOWLEDGE
25. Some YOGIS perform sacrifice to DEVAS alone (DEVA-YAJNA); while
others offer ‘sacrifice’ as sacrifice by the Self, in the Fire of BRAHMAN
(BRAHMA-YAJNA)
26. Some again, offer hearing and other senses as sacrifice in the fires-of-
restraint; others offer sound and other objects of sense as sacrifice in the
fires-of-the-senses
27. Others, again, sacrifice all the functions of the senses and the functions of
the breath (vital energy) in the fire of the YOGA of self-restraint, kindled
by knowledge
28. Others, again, offer wealth, austerity, an YOGA as sacrifice, while the
ascetics of self-restraint and rigid vows offer study of scriptures and
knowledge as sacrifice
19. Chapter 4 – ENDING ACTION IN KNOWLEDGE
29. Others, again, as sacrifice the out-going breath in the in-coming, and the
in-coming in the out-going, restraining, the courses of the out-going and
in-coming breath, solely absorbed in the restraint of breath
30. Others, with well-regulated diet, offer vital-airs in the Vital-Air. All
these are knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are destroyed by sacrifice.
31. The eaters of the nectar – remnant of the sacrifice – go to the Eternal
BRAHMAN. Even this world is not for the non-performer of sacrifice;
how then the other (world), O best of the Kurus?
21. Chapter 4 – Is he where he is because of his Yajnas?
22. Chapter 4 – Mike Phelp’s Training Regime
Workout Set
Warm Up:
6x (50 free, 50 side kick, 50 fly drill, 50 pull buoy, 50
im, 50 im)
20x 100 on 1:15 (25 fly-50free-25fly)
500 stroke (50 kick 50 drill)
Main Set:
2000 timed kick stroke
--MP did free with a board and held per 500 (5:48.9-
5:47.5-5:46.0-5:39.6)
4x100 IM drill continous
Pulling Set:
10x 200 on 3:00 odd =free (moderate) even=fly
(fast)
4 Speed Set:
24x25 fly on :30 (1-ez drill, 1-no breath, 1-sprint)
after practice he did 500 abdominals and stretched
Next Workout
Warm-up:
800 mixer on 10:30
4x150 kick on 2:30 (50 stroke-50free-50stroke)
400 pull with buoy on 5:00 (breathe 3-5-7-9 by 100)
200 stroke on 3:00
10x50 on :45 (2-25kick/25drill 2-25free/25stroke 1-
stroke)
Main Set:
4x50 on 1:30
1x50 1:20
1x50 1:10
1x50 1:00
1x50: :50
1x50 :40
1x50 :30
Long Swim Down
100-200-300 pull (lungbusters by quarters)
400 choice kick
300-200-100 IM Drills
