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Doing all our actions through thought, word, and deed without feeling selfownership,
and dedicating them to bhagavAn, is yaj~nam. All karma should be
performed without attachment. This way of doing karma leads one to forsake
the worldly pleasures, and seek union with God instead. All the actions that one
undertakes with this feeling become tapas, dhAnam, or yaj~nam. The more we
indulge in actions in this spirit, the more the world improves and becomes
purer. tapas through deed, or through body, is the service to bhAgavata-s.
Talking only good things, chanting the veda-s,etc., become tapas by word.
Thinking only good thoughts, and not thinking bad thoughts, becomes tapas
through thought. All this tapas should be undertaken with no desire for fame
or name, and should be as ordained in the SAstra-s. Similarly, dhAnam should
be done with full joy in giving, and not with reservation or sadness that one is
parting with one's possessions,or expecting something in return. Yaj~na should
again be undertaken with selflessness, and not for show or recognition, and
should be consistent with SAstra-s, and performed with SraddhA. It is His
thought that grows this path of tapas, dhAnam, and yaj~nam. Therefore He is
called brahma-vivardhanah.
The above ideas (of sAttvic tapas, dhAnam and ya~jnam) are clearly
enunciated by bhagavAn in gItA Chapter 17 - SraddhA traya vibhAga yogah.
nAma 671 671. 671 äüivt! brahma brahma-vit
brahma vit
a) The Knower of the veda-s.
b) He Who restored the veda-s during His matsya incarnation.
c) He Who knows everything big, both seen and unseen, and those that can only
be inferred.
brahma-vide namah.
brahma vetti iti brahma-vit - He Who knows brahma is brahma-vit.
a) The term brahma in the current nAma is interpreted as referring to the
veda-s by SrI BhaTTar. The veda-s are endless - anantA vai vedAh, and Lord
SrIman nArAyaNa is the Only One who knows all there is to know of the veda-
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