INTRODUCTION : 
Generally, in the houses of Hindus, a Puja room would be available, and in some homes, a separate room is created for puja, whereas in others a small cabinet or shelf would be used as a Puja room. Puja rooms are essential for the Hindu devotees, since they can do puja and abhishekham and can offer the holy Prasad to the divine deities. In their puja room, they can also do meditation, and can chant slokas, in order to cleanse their mind.
It is not possible for the devotees to visit the temples daily, and for them, Puja room acts as a temple, and gives the great feeling of worshipping in the temple. In ancient times, most of the people would be having their own houses, and it would be a big sized one. They would allocate a big room, for performing the puja to the deities, and during the festival days, the family members would invite the children of their neighbours and after performing the puja, they would offer the divine Prasad to the children.
Nowadays, most of the Hindus are living in the apartments, and hence they are finding it difficult to allocate a separate room for performing the puja in their homes. They would make a shelf or cabinet into a puja room, and would keep only a limited number of deities in that place. In ancient times, during the Navaratri festival days, people would keep lot of golu dolls at their puja room, and invite large number of guests at their home, and would offer various types of Sundal Prasad to them.
But nowadays, most of the Hindus are not interested to keep golu dolls at their homes, since they are not finding sufficient time, as well as due to their mechanical routine works, they are losing interest in keeping all such things in their homes. Since nowadays both men and women are employed, they are finding it difficult to keep the golu dolls at their homes, and also they are buying the Sundal Prasad from the nearby shops, and offering it to the deities.
Let us allocate some time for doing puja in our puja room, and let us follow the ancient traditional practice of keeping golu dolls at our homes.
“OM”
SENT BY
R.HARISHANKAR
