"Now for the next entity - Adhiyajnam. That is also Me! This is the entity that consumes joy and grief, the result of the multifarious Karmas they are engaged in. I am the recipient of the Sabda, Sparsa, Rupa, Rasa, and Gandha; through the five senses in all beings, the Adhiyajna principle! I am not only the Kartha, the entity responsible for the Karma; I am also the Bhoktha, the entity for which that Karma is gone through, the recipient of the fruits; I am the benefactor as well as the beneficiary."

Of course, Krishna was able to open the eyes of Arjuna and clarify this truth, this fact of His being the Adhiyajna. But, ordinary intellects may not be able to grasp its implications. It will be easy if we take some illustrations from life. When you want breeze, you switch on the fan; when you want light, you switch on the lamp; when you want to cook, you light the stove; when you want to address a vast audience, you fix up a mike and loudspeakers and switch them on. Or if it is printing you require, you operate the press with a switch. Consider these as separate operations and you will notice that they are unrelated to one another. Light and air, heat and sound, are unrelated; they are distinct in every way, it would seem. But for all these, the Kartha, the motivator is the same, viz., the electric current. The expressions, the manifestations may be different; but the basis, the inspiration, the latent potency, the base is the same.

Like the current, Godhead too operates through all instruments, and awards the consequences of all the activities of all the instruments. He is the Daatha of Sarva-karma-phala. Like the current, He is the inner motivator of all beings, Sarva-bhuthaanthara-atma. Since He is the activator of all Karmas, He is called Adhiyajnam.

"The seventh is Pranav, which, when pronounced at the moment of death, awards merger with the Akshara-parabrahmam Itself!" When Krishna said this, Arjuna immediately prayed to Him to elaborate the point a little more, so that he might grasp it clearly. Krishna was only too glad to do so. 'The moment of death' does not mean 'some future point of time.' It means, 'this very moment!' Any moment might turn out to be the 'moment of death.' So every moment is the 'last'. Every moment must be filled with Pranava. The fate of man after death is moulded by the thought that predominated at the moment of death. That thought is the foundation on which the next birth is built. "Whoever at that time remembers Me attains My glory, reaches me in fact," declares Krishna. So each Karma of man, every striving of his, every Sadhana, should be aimed at sanctifying that fateful moment; the years of life must be devoted to the discipline that will bring up at that moment the thought of Parama or Pranava.