It is a must to have a place of worship at home and also to have family Deity's and Lord Ganapathi's idol or photograph. As most of the south indians worship many more Deities in the pooja room, right arrangement of the Deities was always a question at the back of my mind. During my research, I found the below arrangment as most aptful as it had lot of explanation. Although I am not elaborating too much, below is the gist of it.
Lord Ganapathi needs to be placed in the centre with idol or photograph of male Family Deity and other male Deities like Balkrishna, Hanumantha to His
right and the female Family Deity and other female Deities, e.g. Annapūrṇā, to His left.
In some pictures the female
Deity is depicted along with the male Deity, e.g. Sītārāma,
Lakshmīnārāyanạ,
etc. Whenever She is depicted to the left of the male Deity She bestows
blessings onto devotees along with Her master. The left side symbolises the moon channel (Chandranāḍī) and endows
Serenity and Bliss. This is the saviour
form of the female Deity. In such photographs the male Deity is considered as
the main one and the picture is placed to the right of Shrī Gaṇapati.
In some pictures the female Deity is depicted to the right of the male Deity.
The right side signifies the sun channel (Suryanāḍi). Thus the Deity is
believed to be very powerful. This is the destroyer form of the female Deity.
To conclude, when the female Deity is to
the right of the male Deity She possesses more energy and should be considered
as the principal Deity. Hence such a picture is placed to the left of Shrī Gaṇapati.
One should keep the picture of the saviour or the destroyer form of
the Deity for the ritualistic worship as per one’s wish to undertake spiritual
practice of that form.
If a person having a Guru resides alone then he should
keep only his Guru’s picture / photograph in the temple. If there are other
family members then the Guru’s picture / photograph should be placed to the
right of Shrī Gaṇapati and should be
followed by the male Family Deity’s photograph.
Photographs or idols of the
female Family Deity or other female Deities should be placed to the left of Shrī Gaṇapati.
If you have any other texts that says about the arrangements of the Deity's please share it in this blog. I am not here to say this is perfect, because I am no one to say so. But, I am here to share the knowledge that I acquired during my course of interaction with many learned people.
Thanks to Ibtl.in for providing me with the above information.
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