Virtuous Acts Done on These Days Are Highly Beneficial
Let's see what Shiva Purana has to say about doing rituals and charity during auspicious timings, and also the quality of the recipients.
Going by the Yugas themselves:
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In Satya Yuga, people got 100% result for whatever good things they did.
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In Treta Yuga, 75%.
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In Dwapara Yuga, 50%.
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In Kali Yuga, 25%.
So if a scripture says, if you perform Santana Gopala Homa of 10,000 ahutis, you will beget a progeny—then if you are in Kali Yuga, it should be 40,000 ahutis.
In Kali Yuga also, after its middle, you will get only 75% of even that 25%. Like this, towards the end of Kali Yuga, you will hardly get any result for your good deeds.
Thankfully, we are at the beginning of Kali Yuga, and we can still get 25% result for whatever we do.
But if your heart is pure and you are doing something on a good day, an auspicious day, then you will get full result for whatever you do—of course, within the constraints of the Yuga Dharma.
Any noble deed done on Sankranti would yield 10 times benefit. Sankranti is the day when the sun enters each sign or rashi.
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Any good deed done on Mesha Sankranti or Tula Sankranti will yield 100 times benefit.
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Any good deed done on Karka Sankranti will yield 1,000 times result.
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Done on Makara Sankranti will yield 10,000 times result.
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Anything done—charity, japa—during lunar eclipse will yield 1 lakh times benefit.
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Anything done during solar eclipse will yield 1 million times the benefit.
Why? This I have explained in detail elsewhere.
Doing something on your own birth star is as good as doing it during solar eclipse. Also on the day when you are ending any vrata undertaken.
If you happen to meet a saintly person and do a good deed then—this would yield result a crore times that of doing it during a solar eclipse.
Now, among men who are worthy of worshiping:
Sanyasis, jnanis, yogis, someone who has chanted Gayatri mantra 24 lakh times.
गायकं त्रायते पातात् गायत्रीत्युच्यते हि सा
Gayatri is called Gayatri because she protects her singer or chanter from falling.
In the same way, the satpatrata of the person whom you are worshiping or offering something to is also very important.
The term patra itself has come from:
पतनात् त्रायत इति पात्रं शास्त्रे प्रयुज्यते
A patra is someone who protects you from falling.
I can give you money only if I have money myself. Unless I have something, I cannot give it to you. So unless someone is pure himself, he cannot give purity and protection to someone else.
But as far as food is concerned, the only condition is that the recipient should be hungry. You need not look for any other qualification. Only that which is offered to a person in need will yield result. Somebody who has 100 sets of clothes—there is no point in giving him or her one more set of clothes.
Full result is obtained if you understand someone's need and give. Giving something after being begged for or asked for will yield only 50% result. Whatever you give to someone who is dependent on you—like a maid or an employee—will give only 25% result.
In rituals, sometimes daana to Brahmins is prescribed. Even among them:
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Giving to someone who is only Brahmin by birth and not learned in Vedas—if giving to him gives 10 years of comforts on earth,
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Then giving to a Brahmin who has learned Vedas will give 10 divya varshas of comforts in Swarga Loka.
Whatever you earn out of a decent profession—be it a business or employment—that money is always pure. Doing charity with it would yield 100% result.
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