In English
and (Vedhic rituals of sacrifice) are symbolic rituals designed to redeem these three debts. are of two kinds: (internal) and (external). The internal yajna is the striving to realise the Divinity within. The Divine is in every one and it can be realised only through (meditation). The mind is the sacrificial altar. One has to offer as sacrifice on this altar all one's bad qualities. It may be asked how any bad quality can pollute the body-mind-complex when the Divine is the in-dwelling Spirit. But, it must be realised that this is not one's first birth in a body; many lives have preceded this. Man in Samsktith is called which means, Ma (not), (new) - " not new". Birth as man is the final stage in the upward evolution of the 840 thousand species of living beings. In previous lives, one might have been an insect, a worm, a bird or an animal. It is as a result of this that, despite the presence of the Divine, man displays now many animal qualities. For example, pride is not an innate human quality. It is the natural trait of a buffalo. If one displays pride, it means he has been a buffalo in previous lives and this buffalo 'quality inheres in the human. Some persons exhibit stupid stubbornness. This is not a human trait. It is the quality of a sheep.