Verse 4.26

Verse 4.26: “Others offer the ear and all other sense—centres (conceived as oblations), into the Fires in the form of (sense—) control. Others offer sound and all other objects into the Fires in the form of sense-centres. (126)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Some maintain the sacrificial Fire in the form of self-control or the control of the mind. They offer (conceived as oblations) sense pleasures (objects) accompanied by incantation of hymns, in the shape of the restraint of the body, speech and the mind: others, after the rise of the Sun of Renunciation, make the control of the mind as their abode of spirit and prepare there the Fire of sense-objects. Then with the kindling of the flames of the sensuous pleasures, the sticks of dry wood in the form of the fancies get ablaze while smoke in the form of craving, goes out of the five receptacles in the form of the five senses of the knowledge, leaving them clean and shining. Then they (sacrificers) recite the great hymn “I am the Brahman” and offer plentifully into the fire of sense-enjoyment, in the receptacle (in the form) of the heart, the oblations in the form of sense-objects.”