Speaking just for myself, I would ask and *listen* to Gods where they want to be in my home and life, as opposed to what may be happening in the prevailing practice ...!

RR


[quote="yogani65"]Hello,

My mandir is kept in east and the idols are facing south east. Is that bad?[/quote]

keep the pics facing east,and you sit facing north...max returns on your preayer will follow..thnx
sb

North East corner is considered auspicious for a Pooja area.  One should worship / offer prayer to God either facing north or East. The photos of God should never face south. So it is better to place photos of God in East facinf west so that you face east while offering prayer.

Ok, I am confused a little. As you have mentioned that we should keep the picture "facing" east and pray toward east. Now how can you face god's pictures to the east, would that mean placing them in the west direction and so they can face east? Or keep the pictures in east and have them face toward west?

[quote="durga18"]Ok, I am confused a little. As you have mentioned that we should keep the picture "facing" east and pray toward east. Now how can you face god's pictures to the east, would that mean placing them in the west direction and so they can face east? Or keep the pictures in east and have them face toward west?[/quote]

At a pooja I attended recently, the murtis were in the north and facing south (Dakshinamurthi)

The householders for whom pooja was being done sat facing north or in other words faced the demigod

The priest sat on the right side of the gods, or in the west, facing East where the source of all energies, symbolically the Sun rises from! That side was left unoccupied so that energy can flow in unobstructed!

Symbols are not random and rituals are based on physical reality!

Physical reality is based on mental and spiritual reality!

It is all connected, there is no magic, no secret!

RR