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Virtually all Hindus practice rituals of daily worship, or puja. A particularly devout Hindu may visit a temple every day, but most daily worship takes place in the home, where contact is direct between the worshipper and deity. The rituals that take place there are the foundation of all family actions and decisions.
Each day, members of the family perform personal rituals at their household shrine, which may be a large and impressive room or a tiny niche in a wall. Through worship, the energy of a God or Goddess is summoned to enter the image in the shrine. The deity is then present within the home, protecting the family and engendering a positive future. Shrines contain images relating to the beliefs of each person living in a household, and some homes have separate shrines dedicated to more than one deity.
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