A man brought with him a silver idol of Subrahmanya and copper idols of Valli and Devayāna. He said to Sri Bhagavan: “I have been worshipping them for the last ten years but have been rewarded only with calamities. What shall I do with them? When I asked others, they attribute my worries to some fault in the make-up of the idols—for instance, the difference in the metals of their make. Is it so?”
M.: Did they say that it was wrong to worship?