BG - 4.29

अपाने जुह्वति प्राण प्राणेऽपानं तथाऽपरे। प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः।।4.29।।

apāne juhvati prāṇaṁ prāṇe ’pānaṁ tathāpare prāṇāpāna-gatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇāḥ apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣhu juhvati sarve ’pyete yajña-vido yajña-kṣhapita-kalmaṣhāḥ

• apāne - the incoming breath
• juhvati - offer
• prāṇam - the outgoing breath
• prāṇe - in the outgoing breath
• apānam - incoming breath
• tathā - also
• apare - others
• prāṇa - of the outgoing breath
• apāna - and the incoming breath
• gatī - movement
• ruddhvā - blocking
• prāṇa-āyāma - control of breath
• parāyaṇāḥ—wholly devoted apare - others
• niyata - having controlled
• āhārāḥ - food intake
• prāṇān - life-breaths
• prāṇeṣhu - life-energy
• juhvati - sacrifice
• sarve - all
• api - also
• ete - these
• yajña-vidaḥ - knowers of sacrifices
• yajña-kṣhapita - being cleansed by performances of sacrifices
• kalmaṣhāḥ - of impurities

Translation

Others offer as sacrifice the outgoing breath into the incoming, and the incoming into the outgoing, restraining the flow of the outgoing and the incoming breaths, solely absorbed in the restraint of the breath.

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