Text 19] Ideal Family Life 167

In this way you will be able to worship all living entities—or, in
other words, the supreme living entity within every living entity.

PURPORT

To distribute prasdda to all living entities, the process is that we must
first offer prasada to the brahmanas and the Vaisnavas, for the demigods
are represented by the brahmanas. In this way the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, who is situated in everyone’s heart, will be worshiped. This
is the Vedic system of offering prasadda. Whenever there is a ceremony
for distribution of prasdda, the prasdda is offered first to the
brahmanas, then to the children and old men, then to the women, and
then to animals like dogs and other domestic animals. When it is said that
Narayana, the Supreme Being, is situated in everyone’s heart, this does
not mean that everyone has become Narayana or that a particular poor
man has become Narayana. Such a conclusion is rejected herein.

TEXT 19

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kuryad apara-paksiyam
masi praustha-pade duvijah
sraddham pitror yathd-vittam
tad-bandhiinam ca vittavan

kuryat—one should perform; apara-paksiyam—during the fortnight
of the dark moon; mdsi—in the month of Agvina (October-November);
praustha-pade—in the month of Bhadra (August-September); duvi-
jah—twiceborn; srdddham—oblations; pitroh—unto the forefathers;
yatha-vittam—according to one’s means of income; tat-bandhiinam
ca—as well as relatives of forefathers; vitta-vdn—one who is sufficiently
rich.

TRANSLATION

A brahmana who is sufficiently rich must offer oblations to the
forefathers during the dark-moon fortnight in the latter part of
the month of Bhadra. Similarly, he should offer oblations to the
