The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Chapter XXIV
The Glory of the Agnihotra Sacrifice
If, without knowing this knowledge of the Vaisvanara
Self, one offers an Agnihotra oblation, it is like an
oblation offered in dead ashes after removing the live
coals.
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But if; knowing this, one offers an Agnihotra oblation, it
is like an oblation offered in all the worlds, in all beings
and in all atmans.
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Even as the soft fibres of the ishika reed, when thrown
into fire, are burnt, so also are burnt all the sins of one
who, knowing this, offers an Agnihotra oblation.
Therefore even if a man who knows this gives what is
left of his food to a chandala, he verily offers it to his
Vaisvanara Self. On this there is the following verse:
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"As here on earth hungry children gather around their
mother, so do all beings gather around the Agnihotra
sacrifice, yea around the Agnihotra sacrifice."
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