Talk:Vaiśvadevāyajña - Worship of all Devas

By Vishal Agarwal

This daily act of worship involves making offerings to the guardian deities of one’s home and secondly feeding the really disadvantaged and reviled sections of human society (e.g., criminals, lepers, social outcastes) and stray animals and birds. The merit of performing and demerit of ignoring this daily worship is great:

That brāhmaṇa who thus daily honors all beings, goes, endowed with a resplendent body, by a straight road to the highest abode (i.e., to the Supreme Being). Manusmṛti 3.93

Those depraved brāhmaṇas who eat themselves without performing the Vaiśvadeva fall into filthy hells and all their religious rites are in vain. Parāśara Smṛti 1.57

In modern times, this can take the form of making donations to or volunteering with wildlife conservation or animal humane societies, or providing medical care to those who cannot afford it.