Passage 8

In English

While performing these five actions we make use of our senses of action. In that process, we kill and destroy various . Hence, the have prescribed certain (sacrificial rites) to atone for the sins we commit in these actions of ours. The yajna relating to the , the yajna relating to the ancestors, the yajna relating to the , the yajna relating to the lives of various around us and the yajna relating to the guests are the five different prescribed by the . If you perform these , it will be possible for you to compensate for the sins you may have knowingly or unknowingly committed in these five different actions.