[Advaita-l] My introduction - ViShNuu suukta

[kuntimaddi sadananda]

--- Abhishek RK <rkabhi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/7/05, Neelakanta, Nataraja <nataraja.neelakanta at sap.com> wrote:
> >
> > To support this statement, there is another quote in Taittiriya
> > Brahmanam , Ashtama prapaathaka :
> >
> > Yagnou y Vishnuhu |
> >
> > Meaning - By doing Agni upaasana, one will become Vishnu himself !
> What
> > a statement !
> 
> 
> I had thought yajno vai vishnuh meant Yajna is verily Vishnu Himself.
> But
> this meaning seems more proper somehow. Thanks for this nice write up.
> 
> Regards,
> Abhishek
> 

I think that is the primary meaning.  The vishu sahasranaamaavali also
says He is yajnaH| 
yagno yajnapatiryajnvaa yajnaango yajnavaahanaH| 
In Geeta Krishnaa says as the essence of karmayoga - yajnaartha
karmaNo2nyatra loko2yam karma bandhanaH| tadartham karma kounteya
muktasangaH samaacara|  It could mean - do the action for Vishnu
otherwise one will get bound by the action - He is pleased when one
offers whatever one does with an attitude of surrenderance - yat karoshi
...tat kurushva madarpaNam||

Hari OM!
Sadananda