My interpretation of "worshipping Ram and Krishna"!

Let's get this clear-Idol worship is not mandatory in our epics. Instead of sitting in a temple with the idols, without having an insight, or an understanding of these books, one should try to have their own interpretation of these scriptures and apply it in their own lives. 

Devotion doesn't imply spending hours reading scriptures, and singing and chanting in the temples, but it means to selflessly and ardently believe in the principles laid down for us to interpret and follow.

Many people ponder on the meaning of a ritual-especially the youth for they will not so easily accept ancient traditions as they are presented: why do young people touch feet of elders, why do Indians stand up during national anthem, why do Hindus hang leaves and flowers on the threshold of the house during festivals, why do Muslims fast during the month of Ramzan?

And often I noticed they are given explanations that comfort them, which is assumed to be the ‘right’ explanation. If I tell them rituals are essentially meaningless, they will reject my answer, for such an answer makes no sense to them. Thus those who ask questions often control answers they receive. They hear only what they want to hear!

Rituals have no intrinsic meaning. But that does not mean they are not valuable. This is what many sociologists and anthropologists have been trying to explain, but few have accepted this answer.

"Look at the singing of the national anthem: its value lies in performing it and not in understanding it. Whether the song makes sense or not, whether you feel like standing or not, whether you feel it communicates respect or not, you are obliged to do it unconditionally. You have no right to edit it, re-imagine it, or reinterpret it. Even the courts are clear. It has to be performed in the way laid out by the founders of the country. No questions asked.
By performing it collectively, regularly and over long periods of time, the feeling of patriotism is evoked. This is the ‘behavioral’ model of rituals, that educates us through the body while bypassing the mind. It is perhaps based on how children learn, through mimicry. That is why many ritualists will say, just do ‘puja’ and slowly ‘bhakti’ will emerge in your heart." 

 Today when people seek meaning of particular rituals, they want the answer to fit a particular template that they have in their mind. For example, they expect all ancient stuff to be ‘scientific’. 

Try explaining more complex non-literal meanings using psychology or sociology, and they will turn away saying, “That’s too intellectual,” or “That is not correct, I feel.” 

-My eternal plight! :'(