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TEXT 11 devan bhavayatanena
SYNONYMS  devan--demigods;
bhavayata--having
pleased; anena--by this sacrifice; te--those;
devah--the
demigods; bhavayantu--will please; vah--you;
parasparam--mutual;
bhavayantah--pleasing one another; sreyah--benediction;
param--the
supreme; avapsyatha--do you achieve.
TRANSLATION The demigods,
being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you; thus nourishing one
another, there will reign general prosperity for all.
PURPORT The demigods
are empowered administrators of material affairs. The supply of air, light,
water and all other benedictions for maintaining the body and soul of every
living entity are entrusted to the demigods, who are innumerable assistants
in different parts of the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their
pleasures and displeasures are dependent on the performance of yajnas
by the human being. Some of the yajnas are meant to satisfy particular
demigods; but even in so doing, Lord Visnu is worshiped in all yajnas
as the chief beneficiary. It is stated also in the Bhagavad-gita
that Krsna Himself is the beneficiary of all kinds of yajnas: bhoktaram
yajna-tapasam. Therefore, ultimate satisfaction of the yajna-pati
is the chief purpose of all yajnas. When these yajnas are
perfectly performed, naturally the demigods in charge of the different
departments of supply are pleased, and there is no scarcity in the supply
of natural products.
Performance
of yajnas has many side benefits, ultimately leading to liberation
from the material bondage. By performance of yajnas, all activities
become purified, as it is stated in the Vedas:
ahara-suddhau sattva-suddhih sattva-suddhau
As it will be explained in the following verse, by performance of yajna one's eatables become sanctified, and by eating sanctified foodstuffs, one's very existence becomes purified; by the purification of existence, finer tissues in the memory become sanctified, and when memory is sanctified, one can think of the path of liberation, and all these combined together lead to Krsna consciousness, the great necessity of present-day society.
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