Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 4: Knowledge and the Renouncing of Action

Bhagavad Gita 4.25

daivamevāpare yajñaṃ yoginaḥ paryupāsate | brahmāgnāvapare yajñaṃ yajñenaivopajuhvati ||

Some yogis offer sacrifice to the gods alone. Others offer the sacrifice itself, by means of sacrifice, into the fire of Brahman.

Modern context

Krishna begins a catalogue of the forms that sacrifice can take. Some people worship through outward ritual offered to the gods. Others offer their very self into the absolute, which is the inward path of knowledge. He does not rank the practitioners or call one group false. People differ, and so do their ways of offering. What the ways have in common is the movement of giving up something lower for something higher.