Some schools of devotion have put forward the theory that God descends (= “avatara”) into the image at the time of worship (= “acra”) in a subtle form when invited through appropriate mantras. It is something like putting on the switch to make the electric current flow through a lamp and give light.
By the same logic, when an image fixed in a temple, is consecrated as per prescribed procedure (in which “pranapratishtha” or infusing with life, is an important aspect), the deity “lives” in that image permanently, in a divine or subtle form.
Hence the worshipper has to be extraordinarily careful while performing the ritualistic worship to such consecrated images.
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