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devÄn bhÄvayatÄnena
te devÄ bhÄvayantu vaḥ
parasparaá¹ bhÄvayantaḥ
Å›reyaḥ param avÄpsyatha

6 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: LBG(5) , SB(1)

 devÄn - demigods; bhÄvayatÄ - having pleased; anena - by this sacrifice; te - those; devÄḥ - demigods; bhÄvayantu - will please; vaḥ - you; parasparam - mutually; bhÄvayantaḥ - pleasing one another; Å›reyaḥ - benediction; param - the supreme; avÄpsyatha - you will achieve.


Text

The demigods, being pleased by sacriï¬ces, will also please you, and thus, by cooperation between men and demigods, prosperity will reign 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 is 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 yajñas by the human being. Some of the yajñas are meant to satisfy particular demigods; but even in so doing, Lord Viṣṇu is worshiped in all yajñas as the chief beneï¬ciary. It is stated also in the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ that Kṛṣṇa Himself is the beneï¬ciary of all kinds of yajñas: bhoktÄraá¹ yajña-tapasÄm. Therefore, ultimate satisfaction of the yajña-pati is the chief purpose of all yajñas. When these yajñas 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 yajñas has many side beneï¬ts, ultimately leading to liberation from material bondage. By performance of yajñas, all activities become puriï¬ed, as it is stated in the Vedas: ÄhÄra-Å›uddhau sattva-Å›uddhiḥ sattva-Å›uddhau dhruvÄ smá¹›tiḥ smá¹›ti-lambhe sarva-granthÄ«nÄá¹ vipramoká¹£aḥ. By performance of yajña one’s eatables become sanctiï¬ed, and by eating sanctiï¬ed foodstuffs one’s very existence becomes puriï¬ed; by the puriï¬cation of existence ï¬ner tissues in the memory become sanctiï¬ed, and when memory is sanctiï¬ed one can think of the path of liberation, and all these combined together lead to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the great necessity of present-day society.