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Bhakti yoga is the yoga of devotion. Devotion to god. Rituals performed in the
home of a person are generallly called puja (‘worship’). One of the most sugnificant way
a hindi can offer devotion to a diety or a spiritual teacher is at home. Most hindu homes
set a corner of a room, a cabinet, or sometimes a whole room for where small pictures or
small images of the lord are enshrined.
The vedic culture does not indicate any trace of temple worship. It seems possible
that by the year 500 public shrines became popular, but now temples are a very common
part of the Indian landscape. Nonetheless the structure of different temples and patterns
of worship vary accordingly. Dieties in a hindu temple are treated like royalty. Everyday
the deity is given a ritual bath, adorned, taken in processions during festivals, and given
practically every royal honours. the reason so much attention goes to the dieties is
because the enshrined images are regarded as God.
In home worship, simpler versions of some temple rituals take place. Puja may
involve daily lighting of oil lamps and incense sticks, recitation of prayers, or offering food
to the deity. Mostly most or all of the f
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worshipeed’. Devotees frequnelty walk around the temple
inside one of the enclosures, thus circumambulating the deity. The word literally means
‘clarity’ meaning ‘divine favour’, a gift from god. Preists and ritual
specialists offer prayers to the deity on behalf of the devotee. It is a ritual
when the preist will recite the names of the deity, thus praising him or her. this is where the lord or the goddess are
enshrined. This body of water may be a pond,
river, sea, or even an artificial pool called a ‘tank’ in India. At the centre of the
temple is the garbha grha, ‘the womb-house’. More widespread are the auspiciousness
rituals that women conduct in many parts of india. It is located near a body of water
which automatically becomes a holy body of water.
A temple has a correlation to the universe and to the body of divine beings, and is
therefore planned with care.
In the temple worship devotees belive that the presence of God in the temple does
not detract from his or her presnece up in heaven.
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