family to grow in strength and wisdom, to gradually assimilate everything spiritual values throughout their existence.

It is the elders who, in a family, have the responsibility to see to the application of these principles. Their death therefore risks marking the interruption of these practices, which would lead their descendants to fall into irreligion, atheism, thus losing all possibility of spiritual liberation. To destroy the elders and the knowledge they convey is a capital fault.

When impiety reigns in a family, women become corrupt, and from their degradation unwanted offspring is born.

A healthy population is the fundamental principle of peace, prosperity and spiritual progress in the society of human beings.

The moral principles of the organization of social classes were designed in such a way as to direct the whole of society towards spiritual progress by y ensuring the maintenance of virtue. The purity of a population depends on the chastity and fidelity of women. However, just as a child is easily abused, a woman has a tendency to allow herself to be corrupted. For this reason, both need the protection of the elders of the family. Also, if the chastity and devotion of women are safeguarded through various acts of piety and respect for family traditions, they will not be drawn into adultery and will generate virtuous offspring, capable of participating in the natural organization of families. social classes and spiritual divisions.

Now, that this social system is not respected, and the assiduous trade between men and women leads to adultery, with the risk of generating an undesirable population. Through the fault of irresponsible men, soiled, unwanted children invade society, from which then come wars and epidemics. The increase in the number of these unwanted people creates a life of hell for the family and for those who have destroyed their traditions. The ancestors are forgotten, we stop offering them water and food offerings.

The Vedic traditions, the Vedas, the original holy scriptures, concerning the pursuit of material benefits require that we regularly offer oblations of water and food to the ancestors of the family.

This food is first offered to Visnu, then the sanctified remains are presented to the ancestors. Indeed, the foods first offered to Visnu have the power to deliver a human being from the consequences of all his sinful acts. It may be that our ancestors still suffer the consequences of their sins, that they cannot even obtain a physical body and are forced to remain in their ethereal body, in the state of mind. To offer them sanctified food is to enable them to escape the miserable conditions in which they find themselves. This service is a family tradition, and all those who do not dedicate themselves to the direct service of God, are bound to perform these rites.