Namaste
My name is Alekander and i live in Sweden, more then a year ago i was in search for a religion, that i feel would accept me and found a religion where i can grow as a human. My birth religion is Lutheranism, and i didn't feel a connection and I weren't that religious. So i left my church. Then i started to read both about Islam and Hinduism, and felt more strongly to Hinduism, started to study about it and also I was falling in love with Indian culture and India as well, and embrace it into my home and life. At first i started whit small shrine whit simply resin statues, and i got excited about this faith and way to live so i started to buy allot of religious pictures and religious relics without knowing my place or how to interact with it. Later on i slowed down and set up a shrine dedicated to ganesha, shiva, kartikeya and shakti.
I practice my new faith in private, here is hindu temple in the nearest city. but i haven't visit it. I'm afraid if i will be accepted as this is int my born into religion. And in the village i live here is not that many Indian that i can talk to, to guide me, those that lives here have lost there culture (adoptive from India as young) or doesn't have the same faith (muslims and sikhs).
I hope i can find guidance on this forum and learn more.
Here is my shrine.
Take care
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