It is fascinating how in Sanathana Dharma ideas, energies and the esoteric are personified and objectified for those that do not have the capacity to understand the concepts and also to preserve the concepts in times of destruction and lack of technology and philosophy. This is Hinduism an umbrella of 350 belief systems and is NOT RELIGION PER SE but some modern day fundamentalists are trying to religionise it.........T
One of the worst things that has happenes is the 'one god' idea of the Jews, Christians, and Musllims....as it is not the life force of siva/sakit but just one big composite superstition a huge Deva with attributes......It deflects away from the truth that we are all Prana................................
This is only a recent aberration in human historhy arising within the last couple of thousand years with Akhenaten ( Moses?) in Egypt....before that there was no relgion but various spiritualities..............
Unfortunately there is no way of preventing some Hindus from worshipping the idea as reality.idols .due to lack of development of vijananamayakosa........