Regardless of one’s personal spiritual beliefs or affiliation, decorating with sacred imagery is a sure way to foster a serene and restorative environment in your home -– and achieve an exotic stylistic eclecticism sure to elicit reaction from your guests. There are beautiful and affordable bronze, brass, and resin statues available , in a wide range of sizes from tiny to monumental, of the many key Hindu deities — colorful and distinctive personae that I’ll be featuring in the next few posts, starting with Saraswati.
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A friend gave me a Nepalese salt lamp as a gift last year. I had never seen one before, but immediately loved its natural, asymmetrical rock-like form and especially the beautifully warm and rosy light it radiated once I plugged it in. My parrot took one look at it and walked up to lick it — as I did, following his lead! Yes, it is pure salt…but it more closely resembles a nice big piece of rose quartz.

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