Students in College, novice/new seekers, and casual-devotion practitioners, can all worship a "home-altar deity".
You may do this "rule-free". Do not worry for offense, because your altar is yours and personal.
We only worry for inappropriate materials when installing deity form "archana-vigraha" in Temples or Formal Mandirs. These bona-fide forms are also served under strict rules.
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You may offer what you can to your altar, as best you can under your personal circumstances.
Life-situations and conditions, as well as devotional routine and regulative accuracy, can (and should) always improve and increase. But, we should not worry to artificially accelerate those levels of intensity.
Worship where you are at, with what you have. Sri Krsna will surely appreciate that growing Love.
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YES! Please feel free to worship a ceramic form.
Students in College, novice/new seekers, and casual-devotion practitioners, can all worship a "home-altar deity".
You may do this "rule-free". Do not worry for offense, because your altar is yours and personal.
We only worry for inappropriate materials when installing deity form "archana-vigraha" in Temples or Formal Mandirs. These bona-fide forms are also served under strict rules.
*
You may offer what you can to your altar, as best you can under your personal circumstances.
Life-situations and conditions, as well as devotional routine and regulative accuracy, can (and should) always improve and increase. But, we should not worry to artificially accelerate those levels of intensity.
Worship where you are at, with what you have. Sri Krsna will surely appreciate that growing Love.