Most Temples will have Sanctum for several forms of God, though it may have only one form as the Main Deity. The temple worship has evolved over the years as a service to God as the King or the leader of the land. Here, an image of a likeness of a manifestation of God is consecrated after several days of Holy Rituals. Without these consecration rituals, the Image does not get the Divine powers or the respect more than a statue in a museum. Once so sanctified, all rituals are performed as is done to a live King or leader of the land. The Deity is woken up every morning with a morning service with ceremonial bath with water, milk and other perfumed substances, dressing up with clothes and Jewelry. The services are repeated four to six times or more every day, with offering of food as "prasadam" and singing prayers and songs in praise of the Deity and reading of the Scriptures.

While offering prayers and rituals, they see the presence of God in their choice forms in all places for them to pray. The feeling is that it is necessary to do the prayer services to maintain the social harmony. They often will not ask for a boon, but a general blessing as the Divine gift. They follow the teachings in their Holy texts according to the traditions. All Temples follow many elaborate traditions and intricate rules for installation and for daily services which need to be analyzed and understood with proper reasoning.

In most Western faiths, the Holy Scriptures are revealed words of God to be strictly followed by all men and questioning them is irreverent and considered as blasphemy and punishable. The spirit of inquiry, doubts and questioning is the very foundation of teachings in Vedas in Hindu Dharma just as in any science and technology. So, from ancient times it permits the devotees to study the teachings, question, analyze, reason and accept the different meanings and interpretations after understanding. It also accepted and accommodated many new teaching and interpretations. However any new theory proposed that did not accept a role for a Supreme God or that denied the teachings of Vedas or Agamas as supreme was rejected.

One needs to analyze and reason out after studying and also elevate ourselves spiritually to understand the rituals and powers behind such tradition. If you take a diamond to a physics laboratory, it is a hard crystalline rock, in a chemical laboratory it is a block of carbon, but only a jeweler will understand the financial value of this rock. So, we need to elevate ourselves spiritually, from a three dimensional world to a world with the fourth and fifth dimension and beyond to feel the presence of the Divine powers. We need the proper knowledge and Divine vision. This is like testing the magnetic power or the electricity in a metallic piece. This is like seeing a three dimensional drawing on a flat screen. If we elevate ourselves properly, we can all feel it with our intuitive knowledge.