Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 26

श्रोत्रादीनीन्द्रियाण्यन्ये संयमाग्निषु जुह्वति । शब्दादीन्विषयानन्य इन्द्रियाग्निषु जुह्वति

śrotrādīnīndriyāṇyanye saṃyamāgniṣu juhvati | śabdādīnviṣayānanya indriyāgniṣu juhvati

Translation

Others offer hearing and other senses in the fires of restraint; others offer sound and other objects in the fires of the senses.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

śrotrādīni

hearing, the beginning, whose, them

indriyāṇi

the senses

anye

others

saṃyamāgniṣu

of restraint (concentration), in the fires

juhvati

sacrifice

śabdādīn

sound, the beginning, whose, them

viṣayān

sense-objects

anye

others

indriyāgniṣu

of the senses, in the fires

juhvati

sacrifice

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Some Yogins offer hearing and other senses in the fires of restraint (saṃyama) — the plural 'fires' is used because the restraint differs with each sense — they are ever engrossed in restraining their senses; while others sacrifice the objects of senses in the fires of the several senses, i.e., they regard it as a sacrifice to direct their senses only to the unforbidden objects of senses.