Image worship is the most visible Hindu practice and the one most often attacked from outside and inside. The theology is specific: the image is not a symbol and not a likeness but a place the deity has consented to be present in, invited by the prana-pratishtha rite and thereafter treated as a living guest with a daily schedule of waking, bathing, meals, an afternoon rest, and a bedtime. A temple deity in south India has wardrobes, jewellery inventories, and legal standing — Indian courts have held that the deity is a juristic person who can own property and be represented in litigation. Against this, the Arya Samaj from 1875 rejected images entirely as a corruption of Vedic religion, the Lingayats wear a portable lingam instead of visiting temples, and Nirguna bhakti poets like Kabir mocked stone worship in language no outsider could get away with. All of them are inside the fold.