Bhakti Yoga : at home or in a temple.
             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 family is present during the puja and the daily rites
             are led by family members instead of an initiated priest. Home worship is guided by the
             concept of of appropriate hospitality. The deity receives as much hospitality as a guest
             would recieve in a hindu home. Such as ritual bathing, anointing with ghee (clarified
             butter), offerings of food and drink, lighted lamps, and garlands of flowers such as
             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. A deity is always complete and whole,
             no matter how many incarnations have taken place. Generally in hinduism there is no set
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