Sanskrit · Devanagari
देवान्भावयतानेन ते देवा भावयन्तु वः। परस्परं भावयन्तः श्रेयः परमवाप्स्यथ ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
devānbhāvayatānena te devā bhāvayantu vaḥ parasparaṃ bhāvayantaḥ śreyaḥ paramavāpsyatha
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Please the gods with this, and may those gods please you. Pleasing each other you will attain the highest good. For pleased with the sacrifices
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।3.11।। देवान् इन्द्रादीन् भावयत वर्धयत अनेन यज्ञेन। ते देवा भावयन्तु आप्याययन्तु वृष्ट्यादिना वः युष्मान्। एवं परस्परम् अन्योन्यं भावयन्तः श्रेयः परं मोक्षलक्षणं ज्ञानप्राप्तिक्रमेण अवाप्स्यथ। स्वर्गं वा परं श्रेयः अवाप्स्यथ।।किञ्च
806b505cd782…Rāmānuja
3.11 'By this,' i.e., by this sacrifice, you propitiate the gods who form My body and have Me as their Self. For Sri Krsna will say later on: 'For I am the only enjoyer and the only Lord of Sacrifices' (9.24). Worshipped by sacrifices, may these gods, who have Me as their Self, nourish you with food, drink etc., which are reired also for their worship. Thus, supporting each other, may you attain the highest good called Moksa (release).
56accef53658…Swami Sivananda
3.11 देवान् the gods? भावयत nourish (ye)? अनेन with this? ते those? देवाः gods? भावयन्तु may nourish? वः you? परस्परम् one another? भावयन्तः nourishing? श्रेयः good? परम् the highest? अवाप्स्यथ shall attain.Commentary Deva literally means the shining one. By this sacrifice you nourish the gods such as Indra. The gods shall nourish you with rain? etc. the highest good is the attainment of the knowledge of the Self which frees one from the round of births and deaths. The highest good may mean the attainment of heaven also. The fruit depends upon the motive of the aspirant.
c25fb5a5a915…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.