Yajna in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to yajna, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 3.9Work becomes bondage when it is done for yourself.
• 3.10Life flourishes when duty becomes mutual support.
• 3.11Your duty nourishes the whole, and the whole nourishes you back.
• 3.12What is received must be offered back, or it becomes theft.
• 3.13What is offered purifies; what is hoarded for the self corrupts.
• 3.14Action sustains the cycle that makes life possible.
• 3.15Right action is not random; it rests in a deeper, sustaining order.
• 3.16A life detached from duty empties itself from within.
• 4.23Action loses its grip when it becomes offering, not possession.
• 4.24When action is fully absorbed, even the result is not separate from Brahman.
• 4.25Sacrifice changes shape, but its aim remains surrender into the absolute.
• 4.26Restraint can consume desire before desire consumes you.
• 4.28Sacrifice can be wealth, effort, austerity, or study.
• 4.29Breath itself can become disciplined offering.
• 4.30Discipline itself becomes offering, and offering burns away inner stain.
• 4.31A life without offering cannot even support itself.
• 4.32Seeing every offering as action frees you from action’s binding force.
• 5.29Peace comes from knowing the divine receives all effort and cares for all beings.
• 8.28Knowing the way beyond rewards leads to the highest home.
• 9.16All sacred action is already filled with the divine presence.
• 9.20Rewarded devotion still keeps you bound to return.
• 9.24Every offering matters only when you know who receives it.
• 11.53The deepest vision comes through devotion, not mere accomplishment.
• 17.7Even sacred actions differ; their inner quality decides their worth.
• 17.11Right action becomes pure when reward stops being the reason.
• 17.13Ritual without trust becomes empty and heavy.
• 17.23Sacred action matters because it points beyond itself to what is real.
• 17.24Sacred action begins by naming the supreme reality first.
• 17.25Freedom deepens when action stops demanding a private return.
• 17.27Steady offering makes ordinary action sacred.
• 18.3Renunciation is not simple refusal; some actions must remain.
• 18.5What purifies you should be done, not dropped.