Bhagavad Gita 4.27
सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे । आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ जुह्वति ज्ञानदीपिते ॥
sarvāṇīndriya-karmāṇi prāṇa-karmāṇi cāpare | ātma-saṃyama-yogāgnau juhvati jñāna-dīpite ||
Translation
Others, again, offer all the actions of the senses and the actions of the vital airs into the fire of the yoga of self-restraint, kindled by knowledge.
Reflection
What activity of yours has been running unburned because the fire of knowing has not been lit yet?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Four
Jñāna-dīpite. Lit by knowledge. The verse names the fire that consumes the activity of senses and vital airs: the fire of self-restraint, and it is kindled, dīpita, by knowledge. The chain matters. Knowledge lights the fire. The fire consumes the activities. The activities go in without leaving residue. Aurobindo reads this as the inner equivalent of the outer fire-sacrifice: the yajna moves from altar to body, and the body becomes the altar. The chapter is showing the student that the sacrificial frame is portable.