God Idols & Figurines

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God idols for the pooja room Open almost any home mandir and it is rarely one deity. There is the family's own, the Ganesha that arrived with the house, something a grandmother handed over, and whatever came back from the last temple trip. Nobody planned it. It accumulated, and it is all the better for it. Which means buying a murti is two decisions wearing one, and most people only think about the first. The deity is personal and usually settled long before anyone opens a website. The material, the size and the finish are what decide whether the piece still looks right in ten years, and almost nobody explains them. Which idols to keep in a home temple Nothing here should override the form your family already keeps. The oldest formal answer to the question is panchayatana puja , the five-deity arrangement in which Ganesha, Vishnu, Shiva, Devi and Surya are kept together with the household's chosen deity at the centre and the other four around it. Most homes today keep something looser than that, and there is no obligation to keep five. A Ganesha is in almost every Indian home, because Ganapati is invoked at the start of any rite regardless of what else the household keeps. It is the most common first murti and the most common gift. Maa Lakshmi is the other near-universal choice, and the two together are the conventional Diwali and new-home purchase, standing for a beginning and for what follows it. Lakshmi with Vishnu is the more usual pairing in Vaishnava households. Hanuman is kept for protection, and the Chalisa is explicit on the point. Shiva covers the meditating form, Shiv Parvati pairs and emblem pieces for a narrow shelf. One correction worth making: the widely repeated line about Nataraja being an angry form unsuitable for a house is simply wrong. Nataraja is the Ananda Tandava, the dance of bliss. The broader principle that fierce forms belong to temple worship is real, but Nataraja is not one of them. Krishna runs from the flute-playing cowherd to Laddu G

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