Sanskrit · Devanagari
अहं हि सर्वयज्ञानां भोक्ता च प्रभुरेव च। न तु मामभिजानन्ति तत्त्वेनातश्च्यवन्ति ते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
ahaṃ hi sarvayajñānāṃ bhoktā ca prabhureva ca na tu māmabhijānanti tattvenātaścyavanti te
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882worship me only, (but) irregularly. For I am the enjoyer as well as the lord of all sacrifices. But they know me not truly therefore do they fall.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।9.24।। -- अहं हि सर्वयज्ञानां श्रौतानां स्मार्तानां च सर्वेषां यज्ञानां देवतात्मत्वेन भोक्ता च प्रभुः एव च। मत्स्वामिको हि यज्ञः? अधियज्ञोऽहमेवात्र (गीता 8।4) इति हि उक्तम्। तथा न तु माम् अभिजानन्ति तत्त्वेन यथावत्। अतश्च अविधिपूर्वकम् इष्ट्वा यागफलात् च्यवन्ति प्रच्यवन्ते ते।।येऽपि अन्यदेवताभक्तिमत्त्वेन अविधिपूर्वकं यजन्ते? तेषामपि यागफलं अवश्यंभावि। कथम् --,
8b146d3851eb…Rāmānuja
9.24 I am 'the only Lord' - the meaning is that I alone am the bestower of rewards everywhere. How wonderful is this, that though devoting themselves to the same kind of action, on account of the difference in intention some partake of a very small reward with the likelihood of fall, while some others partake of a reward in the form of attainment of the Supreme Person which is unalloyed, limitless, and incomparable! Sri Krsna explains this:
484cd4ca86fe…Swami Sivananda
9.24 अहम् I? हि verily? सर्वयज्ञानाम् of all sacrifices? भोक्ता enjoyer? च and? प्रभुः Lord? एव alone? च and? न not? तु but? माम् Me? अभिजानन्ति know? तत्त्वेन in essence (or in reality)? अतः hence? च्यवन्ति fall? ते they.Commentary They do not know that I? the Supreme Self? am the enjoyer of all sacrifices enjoined in the Vedas and the Smritis (the codes of right conduct) and the Lord of all sacrifices. As I am the inner Ruler of this world I am the Lord of all sacrifices (Vide chapter VIII. 4 -- Adhiyajnohamevatra I am the presiding deity of the sacrifice). I am at the beginning and at the end of every sacrifice and yet these people worship other gods. Therefore they worship in ignorance. As they worhsip other gods without recognising Me? and as they have not consecrated their actions to Me? they return to this mortal world after their merits are exhausted from the plane to which they had attained as the result of their sacrifices.Those who are devoted to other gods and who worship Me in ignorance (Avidhipurvakam) also get the fruit of sacrifice. How (Cf.V.29XV.9)
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