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TEXT 16 aham kratur aham yajnah
SYNONYMS  aham--I;
kratuh--ritual;
aham--I; yajnah--sacrifice; svadha--oblation;
aham--I;
aham--I; ausadham--healing herb; mantrah--transcendental
chant; aham--I; aham--I; eva--certainly; ajyam--melted
butter; aham--I; agnih--fire; aham--I; hutam--offering.
TRANSLATION But it is
I who am the ritual, I the sacrifice, the offering to the ancestors, the
healing herb, the transcendental chant. I am the butter and the fire and
the offering.
PURPORT The sacrifice
known as jyotistoma is also Krsna, and He is also the maha-yajna.
The oblations offered to the Pitrloka or the sacrifice performed to please
the Pitrloka, considered as a kind of drug in the form of clarified butter,
is also Krsna. The mantras chanted in this connection are also Krsna.
And many other commodities made with milk products for offering in the
sacrifices are also Krsna. The fire is also Krsna because fire is one of
the five material elements and is therefore claimed as the separated energy
of Krsna. In other words, the Vedic sacrifices recommended in the karma-kanda
division of the Vedas are in total also Krsna. Or, in other words,
those who are engaged in rendering devotional service unto Krsna are to
be understood to have performed all the sacrifices recommended in the Vedas.
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