Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 70

अध्येष्यते च य इमं धर्म्यं संवादमावयोः । ज्ञानयज्ञेन तेनाहमिष्टः स्यामिति मे मतिः

adhyeṣyate ca ya imaṃ dharmyaṃ saṃvādamāvayoḥ | jñānayajñena tenāhamiṣṭaḥ syāmiti me matiḥ

Translation

And he who will study this sacred dialogue of ours, by him I shall have been worshipped by the sacrifice of wisdom, I deem.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

adhyeṣyate

shall study

ca

and

yaḥ

who

imam

this

dharmyam

sacred

saṃvādam

dialogue

āvayoḥ

of us (two)

jñānayajñena

of wisdom, by the sacrifice

tena

by him

aham

I

iṣṭaḥ

worshipped

syām

may be

iti

thus

me

my

matiḥ

opinion

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Dialogue: this work which is in the form of a dialogue. Of the four kinds of sacrifice (vidhi, japa, upāṃśu, mānasa), the jñāna-yajña or wisdom-sacrifice comes under the head of mānasa and is therefore the highest. Thus the Gītā-śāstra is extolled as a jñāna-yajña.