Many of us throw away old idols while cleaning the house during Diwali or after Diwali puja. Which is absolutely wrong if seen from a spiritual point of view. As long as God lives in our house and we worship him, he becomes like a member of our house. Are we just thrown out after we die? No, that is why even old idols should be immersed somewhere else with great respect. Be it any pilgrimage site or holy river, go there and immerse the idol. Give them a place in your home until you find such a sacred place. Similarly, idols kept under a tree give us bad results.

On Diwali, the destroyer of obstacles Ganesha and Mother Lakshmi are worshiped for happiness and prosperity. On this day, worship is done after installing a new idol of Lakshmi-Ganesh in the house. In such a situation, people are very careless about those idols of Lakshmi and Ganesha which have become old. According to astrology, there are some special rules for bidding farewell to old idols. If this is not done, the auspicious results of the puja performed throughout the year will not be achieved. Many people get pictures of God printed and distributed in wedding cards and on any other papers. What they don’t know is that after reading the cards given by them, they are thrown in the dustbin, which creates a huge waste. It is also important to have God’s photo printed in wedding cards. But if we have received someone else’s card, then do not throw it in a dirty place after reading it. Nowadays it has become popular to send wedding messages online. The best thing about this is that we do not have to pay the cost of printing taxes. Nor does it need to be thrown away after reading. In today’s busy life, no one has enough time to go door-to-door and give invitations.

If any idol or photo of God in our house is broken then replace it. A broken idol or photo of God should never be placed. If any idol of the home temple gets broken, then whose life has been consecrated and which you worship daily, then after paying obeisance to the idol, immerse it in a river or flowing water. Should be done. If it is not possible for you to immerse the broken idol in a pond or river, then the broken idol should be handed over to a guru or a temple priest. But the broken idol should be immersed with full devotion and respect and not kept abandoned at any crossroads or under a tree. Like many times we find torn pictures and broken idols of God on the roadside or under a tree. lets see. One feels extremely sad after seeing them and a question arises in the mind that ‘how can anyone insult these idols of God. So in such a situation, do not make this mistake by mistake.

If God’s picture is in a photo frame and it breaks, then do not tear that photo and throw it away. Rather, immerse the photo by separating it from the frame and glass. If you do not remove the torn photo of God, it has a bad effect on your family members.
Don’t panic if the idol in your house breaks on its own. According to astrology, the breaking of the idol on its own is not inauspicious, rather it is a sign that God has taken upon himself some major crisis that may befall your family. Yes, the self-disintegration of the idol is a sign that some disaster was about to befall you and it was averted. It is believed that the broken idols absorb the untoward incidents of the house within themselves, thereby reducing the consequences of any evil happening.

Those people who have ancient and very old idols in their home temple which have been there for centuries and which you worship even today, then these idols give other indications. If one day such an idol in the temple suddenly falls and breaks on its own. So this is an inauspicious sign. If the idol has merely fallen and is not broken, then you should not immerse it, but wash it with clean water and reinstall it after worshiping with full rituals. According to the scriptures, while worshiping, your entire attention should be on worshiping God. . It is believed that if you keep a broken idol in the worship place then it creates a hindrance in your concentration on worship. If you worship a broken idol or picture, it may bring bad omens for you. While worshiping the broken idol, the person’s mind remains disturbed and hence the disturbed prayer does not yield any positive results.

Friday is the day to bring Goddess Lakshmi home forever, she should not be bid farewell on this day. If you immerse any old or broken idol of Mother Goddess on this day, then it is a bad omen because immersion of the idol is considered as the farewell of the Goddess. Never leave even an old idol out of the house on Friday. There is a rule to burn wooden idols and immerse stone idols in water. There is a law to immerse idols made of gems and metals in the sea. At the same time, there is a rule to keep the idols made of clay and sand for one day to seven days. These idols should be immersed in the river with the sound of Om.

If you feel that the photo kept in your house has become old and should be changed, then try not to change the photo but change the frame. And give it a new look. Because as we grow old, no one changes us. Similarly, these idols are also members of our house.