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Yajña — The Ritual
before this →Time and Action — Jyotiṣa & Kalpa
The Veda does not only say; it does. The yajña is the act in which the human and cosmic orders are tied together — and it is the karma-kāṇḍa’s whole reason for existing.
Five daily debts
the pañca-mahāyajña
The great public rites are for the few; the five daily ones are for everyone: to the seers (study), the gods (offering), the ancestors (oblations), beings (hospitality, food), and other humans (charity). The ritual system is not an elite hobby; it is a schedule of obligations.
the bridgeThe Gītā takes the yajña and interiorizes it: knowledge, breath,
and discipline become offerings. Ritual action, done without grasping, becomes the
practice of liberation itself.
OUTERthe fire, the offering, the priest
DAILYthe five debts of every householder
INNERthe Gītā's yajña of knowledge and breath
introduces →yajñaagnisomaagnihotramahāyajña