निषेकादिश्मशानान्तै: संस्कारै: संस्कृतो द्विज: । इन्द्रियेषु क्रियायज्ञान् ज्ञानदीपेषु जुह्वति ॥ ५२ ॥
nisekadi-smasanantaih samskaraih samskrto dvijah indriyesu kriya-yajnan jnana-dipesu juhvati
- niseka-adi
- the beginning of life (the purificatory process of garbhadhana, performed when the father begets a child by discharging semen into the womb of the mother)
- smasana-antaih
- and at death, when the body is put into a crematorium and burnt to ashes
- samskaraih
- by such purificatory processes
- samskrtah
- purified
- dvijah
- a twice-born brahmana
- indriyesu
- into the senses
- kriya-yajnan
- activities and sacrifices (which elevate one to a higher planetary system)
- jnana-dipesu
- by enlightenment in real knowledge
- juhvati
- offers
A twice-born brahmana (dvija) gains his life by the grace of his parents through the process of purification known as garbhadhana. There are also other processes of purification, until the end of life, when the funeral ceremony (antyesti-kriya) is performed. Thus in due course a qualified brahmana becomes uninterested in materialistic activities and sacrifices, but he offers the sensual sacrifices, in full knowledge, into the working senses, which are illuminated by the fire of knowledge.