When food is cooked, the first portion ....

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The fruits that offerings bring about ... The offerings made to the deities,

the Yakshas, the Uragas, human beings, spirits, and Rakshasas.

 

 

When food is cooked, the first portion When food is cooked, the first portion

thereof should be offered to a Brahmana. The particular offerings should also

be presented to the household deities. The deities become gratified with such

gifts. It is well-known that the measure of gratification which the deities

derive from such offerings is a hundred times as great as that which the

householder himself derives from making them.

 

 

 

Those unscrupulous and wicked men that eat without first serving Brahmanas and

deities and guests and children, should be known as Rakshasas. Hence, one should

first offer the food one has got ready unto the deities after having worshipped

them duly with restrained senses and concentrated attention. One should offer

the offerings unto the deities, bending one head in reverence. The deities are

always supported by food that householders offer. Verily, they bless such houses

in which offerings are made to them. The Yakshas and Rakshasas and Pannagas, as

also guests and all homeless persons, are supported by the food that are offered

by persons leading the domestic mode of life. Indeed, the deities and the Pitris

derive their sustenance from such offerings. Gratified with such offerings they

gratify the offerer in return with longevity and fame and wealth. Clean food, of

agreeable scent and appearance, mixed with milk and curds, should, along with

flowers, be offered to the deities.

 

 

 

 

 

The offerings that should be offered to Yakshas and Rakshasas should be rich

with blood and meat, with wines and spirits accompanying, and adorned with

coatings of fried paddy. Offerings mixed with lotuses and Utpalas are very

agreeable to the Nagas. Sesame seeds, boiled in raw sugar, should be offered to

the spirits and other unearthly Beings. He who never takes any food without

first serving therefrom the Brahmanas and deities and guests, becomes entitled

to first portions of food. Such a man becomes endued with strength and energy.

Hence, one should never take any food without first offering a portion thereof

to the deities after worshipping them with reverence.

 

 

One’s house always blazes forth with beauty in consequence of the household

deities that live in it. Hence, he that desires his own advancement and

prosperity should worship the household deities by offering them the first

portion of every food.

 

 

 

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