Do not turn your back to the Deity
Do not sit with your back to the Deity.
Choose a place where you face the altar or sit to one side. Turning your back on the Lord, even by habit, says that your attention is elsewhere. The Nectar of Devotion lists it among the offenses to avoid.
- Whose teaching
- Vedic scripture
- Where it is taught
- The Nectar of Devotion, ch. 8: offense 28
- Source
- Vedabase