In English
The ploughs the field, prepares the plots, lets water into them, and makes them fit to receive the seeds. Then, he scatters four bags of paddy on the land. An ignoramus who does not know agriculture laughs at him. "You have gone mad. When people are starving, 'you throw the paddy they would gladly eat into the soil!" But, in return for the four bags lost, the 'mad man' will bring home forty bags after harvest. When two tins of are poured ritually into the sanctified Fire the world will gain two hundred tins of . Whatever is dedicated and offered to God can never be lost. People can gain enormous benefit by offering even a little to God. "A leaf or a flower, a fruit or a little water" - that is enough, if offered with devotion. gave the fraction of a leaf sticking to the side of a vessel and God granted her endless good fortune. gave a handful of parched rice and received from the Lord awareness of His endless Glory. The yajna bears witness to this inner significance.