Namaskaram Jainarayan ji
It allways seems to happen that if you desire to give a home to the Deity (which ever Deity you choose) a space will make it self available and the Deity will appear, ....
@Jainarayan ji , not that I want to be mean to your niece but I hope you get your free room I understand how you feel about visitors to the house as outside of the Indan comunity people do not allways understand , but the one positive is that everyone seeing your Shrine and your display of Murtis will receive many blessings whether they realise it or not , ...
This conversation very much reminds me of one sweet couple who came to stay in London when I was there , who of course could not afford such a big flat or lots of fancy furniture so for privacy they made a small shrine in a wardrobe , ...it was very nice everything was there and you could just open the doors and sit infront of it for jappa and give puja kneeling , ...it realy makes us aware that for home worship it is the thought that counts , it does not have to be large Deities or fancy shrine we just do our loving best , ...
if Puja is difficult especialy if you are working and life is allways a rush of comittments then even small fruit or sweets offering every day at the same time is benificial this will help anyone to increase their worship naturaly , the Deities will enjoy your offering and you can take these to work and share the prasad with your freinds this is a good way to make worship stable , as you will not be able to leave the house without giving your Ganapati sweets he will be calling you to get up and bring him something nice , this way you will form realy strong relationship with your Deities and they will shower you with blessings , then everything will run smoothly , ...they will even make more time in your day , do not be affraid to ask for blessings in devotional life Deities will allways be happy to grant these wishes .
Here is a Picture of our little Lala , ....Bal Gopal , ...he is allways crying for more food particularly sweets and nice fruits , he is not in our shrine room but he sits in his own little shrine beside me where I work , ...even just offering a flower every day at the Deities feet is a very good habit to get in to , ....we are just waiting now for the hyacinths to flower as
View attachment 15728 they are the first flowers of the year and smell so sweet the Deities love them , ....you can see Lala is very small so I had to make him a little dress from ribbons and braid , he is too small even to have a proper stole so he just has ribbon , ..but when i was not looking he stole one crown from the other Deities he says it is al little big but he will grow into it if I give him more sweets , .....
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