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God is immortal and murthi/vigraghas are only representatives. For God you pray through murthi or pray without murthi is immaterial. Athmasutthi is important and Trust is more important. Ramakrishna paramahamsa has once told a story which is as follows:- Once there was a person who daily do pooja to krishna keeping an idol of krishna. For long time he was doing pooja and lord did not give him darshan. He was frustrated and removed the idol from his pooja peetam and kept it in the loft. He started praying another god. Suddenly he observed that the fragrance of udubatthi and the smell of the bakzhanmas are going towards the loft where he kept the krishna idol. Now he told krishna that you are not giving me your darshan but you want to enjoy my food and the sweet fragrance of batthi and he took one cloth and tied the same on the face of krishna. That time god krishna appeared before him and told so far you have considered me as an idol and now only you realise my presence and that is why you tied my face.