Chāndogya Upaniṣad 5.24

5.24.1

sa ya idam avidvān agnihotraṃ juhoti yathā aṅgārān apohya bhasmani juhuyāt tādṛk tat syāt \\524.1\

1. If one offers the Agnihotra (fire) sacrifice without knowing this—that would be just as if he were to remove the live coals and pour the offering on ashes.

5.24.2

atha ya etad evaṃ vidvān agnihotraṃ juhoti tasya sarveṣu lokeṣu sarveṣu bhūteṣu sarveṣv ātmasu hutaṃ bhavati \\524.2\

2. But if one offers the Agnihotra sacrifice knowing it thus, his offering is made in all worlds, in all beings, in all selves.

5.24.3

tad yatheṣīkātūlam agnau protaṃ pradūyetaivaṃ hāsya sarve pāpmānaḥ pradūyante ya etad evaṃ vidvān agnihotraṃ juhoti \\524.3\

3. So, as a rush-reed laid on a fire would be burned up, even

so are burned up all the evils of him who offers the Agnihotra sacrifice knowing it thus.

5.24.4

tasmād u haivaṃvid yady api caṇḍālāya ucchiṣṭaṃ prayacchet \
ātmani haivāsya tad vaiśvānare hutaṃ syād iti \
tad eṣa ślokaḥ \\524.4\

4. And therefore, if one who knows this should offer the leavings even to an outcast (caṇḍāla), it would be offered in his Universal Ātman (Soul). As to this there is the following verse:—

5.24.5

yatheha kṣudhitā bālā \mātaraṃ paryupāsate \
evaṃ sarvāṇi bhūtāny \agnihotram upāsata
ity agnihotram upāsata iti \\524.5\

As hungry children sit around
About their mother here in life,
E'en so all beings sit around
The Agnihotra sacrifice.'