Many have the WRONG conception that
"praying" to our ancestors on festive days is non-buddhistic and
superstitious.
From the above Sutta, one treats this as meritorious
deed as you are doing dana during this memorial service, and an occasion for
one to "transfer" merits to the departed ones. Who knows some of them
(though NOT ALL of them) belong to the petas who need your offerings.
In this Sutta Buddha do agree that the performance is
metritorious to donor.
The LATE Buddhist text of Milindapanha mentions that
only one type of peta can benegit from our gifts/offerings. Find out
yourselves.
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