Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion (via the remarkable
wood s lot). Many beautiful photographs of daily worship, divided into sections: Morning Prayers, Community, The Temple, Processional Images, Ephemera, Vows and Healing, Old Age and Renunciation. The picture below is from South India.
This rock crystal Linga, the symbolic image of the God Shiva, is being washed with sacred substances in the household shrine of a south Indian maharajah. The pre-eminent Hindu saint, Shankaracharya, gave it to the royal family's ancestor in the seventh century.
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