[Advaita-l] Is it ok to worship a Shiva Linga, Shoola (weapon of Mother Parvathi) or Discus of Vishnu in the pooja room at home?

Venkatesh Murthy vmurthy36 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 06:22:51 CST 2015


Namaste
If the book is saying we should not do Shiva Pooja in Pooja Room it is a
contradiction. Pooja Room is for doing Pooja. If you do Shiva Pooja outside
the Pooja Room that place may not have same Purity like Pooja Room. Someone
may have sat there without taking bath, eaten food and so on. This is one
point.

Another point is we should not be worried while doing Pooja when God will
give wealth and when He will take away wealth. If He wants He will give
otherwise He will take away. The devotee need not worry.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:56 AM, RAMESH RAMANAN via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Dear All,
> Pranams/Namaskarams,
> I read in a Tamil book that one should not worship a Shiva Linga, or
> Shoola (weapon of Mother Parvathi) or Discus of Vishnu in the Pooja room at
> home. If one does so, wealth will not stay with him, that is, he will lose
> wealth. Is this correct? I worship a Shiva Linga and perform Abhishekam to
> it regularly. I do not do the poooja/Abhishekam in the pooja room, but in
> the balcony of my flat. Is that ok? Or does the prohibition of the pooja
> room include the balcony also? I am confused about this and would like to
> be enlightened by knowledgeable members of this board. Let me add that I
> definitely feel great joy in performing abhishekam to Lord Shiva, but this
> statement in the book has confused me. Please note that I do not have time
> or the opportunity to go to the temple everyday and perform abhishekams.
> Thanks in advance for the clarifications. Ramesh Ramanan
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-Venkatesh


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