Fwd: A question

[Jagannathan Mahadevan]

> --- katy brown  wrote:
> > From: "katy brown"
> >
> > Subject: RS
> > Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:30:11 BST
> >
> > dear sir/madam,
> > i am a GCSE student at an England school and am currently trying to
> > produce
> > a piece of religious studies coursework on Hindu temples and worship.
> > I was
> > wondering whether you could answer this question for me:-
> >
> > For Hindu's is worship in the the home or worship in the temple more
> > important? Why?
> >
> > thank you very much for your time i would very much appreciate it if
> > you
> > could email me back with an answer.
> >
> > yours gratefully
> > Katy Brown
> >

The temple worship and worship at home are two similiar activities. Of
course any worship done as a group or in public (like in a temple) has its
inspirational factor. Worship at home is like taking god out of the
limited ambit of temple and bringing him home too. I remember a story from
Amar Chitra Katha (comic strip popular in India) where Arjuna constructs
Shiva Linga right at the place where shiva the "hunter" defeated arjuna in
the race for a boar. This may be an instance where it suggests that one
could invoke the worshipfulness anywhere irrespective of whether there is
a temple or not.
Thanks
Jagannathan

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