[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?

[Karthik Subramanian]

Panchayatana Pooja has been a part and parcel of the daily life of many families' for centuries now, and mostly the Madhyastha of the panchayatana is the Bana Lingam, with some families being exceptions and have either Vishnu or Shakti as the madhyastha in their Panchayatanams. In our Panchayatanam, the Bana lingam worshipped is easily about 200 years old. My grandfather who recently attained Sivapadam at the age of 94, would attest that he had seen his very aged grandfather perform daily worship of the Bana Lingam. I am sure there are many families that have such a puja murthi as heirloom. Regards,
Karthik
      From: H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 To: RAMESH RAMANAN <rameshramanan at yahoo.co.uk>; A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> 
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 Subject: Re: [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?
   
I am surprised at the observation made by Sri Ramesh Ramanan. In my family
Sivalinga Abhishekham on a daily basis is being done for over a century now
by various members in their houses. It is done in the Pooja Room only.I
have not across such an observation by anyone so far. Our family house is
visited by any number of very well known vaidika brahmins and purohits. No
one has made such an observation.

Regards

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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