BG 4.31

यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम् । नायं लोकोऽस्त्ययज्ञस्य कुतोऽन्यः कुरुसत्तम ॥

yajña-śiṣṭāmṛta-bhujo yānti brahma sanātanam | nāyaṃ loko 'sty ayajñasya kuto 'nyaḥ kuru-sattama ||

"Those who eat yajna's remnants reach eternal Brahman. Without offering, not even this world is theirs."

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5 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources

Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)

The righteous who eat the remnants of sacrifice, the nectar of immortality, go to the eternal Brahman. This world is not for the non-sacrificer — how then the other world, O best of the Kurus?

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]

The righteous who eat the remnants of the sacrifice go to the eternal Brahman. This world is not for him who offers no sacrifice — how then the other world, O best of the Kurus?

William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)

[6]

Those who partake of the immortal remnants of the sacrifice go to the eternal Brahman. This world is not for him who makes no sacrifice — how then the other, O best of the Kurus?

Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)

[7]

Those who eat of the sacrifice's remnants go to Brahman. This world is not for the non-sacrificer — how then the other, O best of Kurus?

K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)

[9]

Those who eat the remnants of the sacrifice, the nectar of immortality, go to the eternal Brahman. This world is not for the man who sacrifices not — how then the other world, O best of the Kurus?