Aushadham: all vegetable food and medicinal herbs.

Mantra: the chant with which oblation is offered. Ajyam: articles of oblation.

The fire--into which the offering is poured.

^207:17 Sustainer--by dispensing fruit of action.

^207:18 Seed: cause of the origin of all things.

Immutable--because it endures so long as the Samsara endures.

^208:19 Being: The manifested world of effects.

Non-being--means, the cause which is unmanifested only, and not non-existence; otherwise we have to conceive existence coming out of nonexistence, which is absurd. The Sruti says, "How can existence come out of non-existence?"--Chhand. Upa. 6.

^209:20 Lord of the Devas--Indra, who is called Satakratu, because he had performed a hundred sacrifices.

^210:21 Injunctions--Ritualistic, the Karma-Kanda.

^210:22 Ananyah--as non-separate, i.e., looking upon the Supreme Being as not separate from their own self. Or Ananyah may mean, without any other (thought). Then the translation of the Sloka should be--persons who worship Me in all beings, never harbouring any other thought, to them &c.

I carry &c.--Because while other devotees work for their own gain and safety, those who do not see anything as separate from themselves, do not do so; they even do not cherish a desire for life; so the Lord secures to them gain and safety.

^211:23 Wrong method--ignorantly, not in the way by which they can get Moksha.

^211:24 They return--by worshipping other gods they attain no doubt to the spheres of their sacrifice, but after the exhaustion of this merit, they fall from those spheres and return to the mortal world.

^212:25 Bhutas--beings lower than the Devas, but higher than human beings.

Me--The Imperishable.

^213:26 Not only does the single-minded devotion to the Supreme lead to imperishable result, but it is also so easy and simple to perform,--says Krishna in this Sloka.

^214:28 The Yoga of renunciation--This way of purification of the heart by offering everything to the Lord.

Liberated &c.--thou shalt be liberated while in the body, and at its death, become Me.

^214:29 I am like fire. As fire gives heat to those who draw near to it, and not to those who move away from it, even so do I. My grace falls upon My devotees, but not owing to any attachment on My part. As the sun's light, though pervading everywhere, is reflected in a clean mirror, so also I, the Supreme Lord, present as a matter of course everywhere, manifest Myself in those persons only, from whose minds all the dirt of ignorance has been removed by devotion.

^215:30 He has rightly resolved--He is one who has formed a holy resolution, to abandon the evil ways of his life.