।।3.13।।इन्द्राद्यात्मना अवस्थितपरमपुरुषाराधनार्थतया एव द्रव्याणि उपादाय विपच्य तैः यथावस्थितं परमपुरुषम् आराध्य तच्छिष्टाशनेन ये शरीरयात्रां कुर्वते ते तु अनादिकालोपार्जि तैः किल्बिषैः आत्मयाथात्म्यावलोकनविरोधिभिः सर्वैः विमुच्यन्ते।ये तु परमपुरुषेण इन्द्राद्यात्मना स्वाराधनाय दत्तानाम् आत्मार्थतया उपादाय विपच्य अश्नन्ति ते पापात्मानः अघम् एव भुञ्जते। अघपरिणामित्वाद् अघम् इति उच्यते। आत्मावलोकनविमुखा नरकाय एव पच्यन्ते।पुनरपि लोकदृष्ट्या शास्त्रदृष्ट्या च सर्वस्य यज्ञमूलत्वं दर्शयित्वा यज्ञानुवर्तनस्य अवश्यकार्यताम् अननुवर्तने च दोषं च आह
3.13 Those persons who acire food materials solely for propitiating the Supreme Person abiding as the Self of Indra and other deities, and who, after cooking them, propitiate, through them, the Supreme Person as He is, and then sustain themselves on the remnants of oblations (made for such propitiation), they alone will be free of impurities which have resulted from beginningless evil and which are inimical to the vision of the self. But they are evil-minded, who acire for selfish use the things which the Supreme Being, abiding as the Self of Indra and other deities, has granted them for worshipping Him with, and use it all on the other hand for feeding themselves - they eat only sin. Turning away from the vision of the self, they cook only for being led to Naraka (for the expiation of the sin incurred thery).
Sri Krsna says that, from the standpoint of the world as well as that of the scriptures, everything has its origin in sacrifice; and He speaks of the need for the performance of the sacrifices and of the blemish in not performing the same:
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