Daivam Evapare Yajnam

Krishna begins listing the many forms yajna can take. Some yogis worship the devas — their rituals and prayers directed toward specific divine powers. This is their yajna. Others go further: they see the act of offering itself as an oblation poured into the fire of Brahman. For them, the yajna is not a means to an end. It is an end in itself — a merging into the ultimate.

Two paths, two levels of understanding, but both are honored. Krishna does not rank or criticize. Each seeker offers what they can, from where they stand.

This shloka begins a catalogue of yajna types that runs from 4.25 through 4.30. Krishna names various forms of spiritual practice, calling each one a yajna.

The next shloka (4.26) describes the yajna of sense-restraint and the yajna of experiencing sense-objects through the senses.