Puja

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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