When we go to take a bath, we maintain a specific decorum by taking precautions like wearing proper bath wear, taking off ornaments, having proper clean/hot water to bathe, etc..
When we go to a kitchen, we maintain a specific decorum by taking precautions like not placing any inflammable items near gas cylinder, providing proper passage to vent out the smoke and so on ...
When we go to a bed room, we maintain a specific decorum by taking precautions like not having too much of light, sound etc that would disturb our sleep, having comfortable mattress on the bed, pillows, bed sheets, for proper sleep etc....
When we go to a prayer room, we maintain a specific decorum by taking precautions like wearing proper cotton / 'pooja' wear, carrying items like flowers, incense sticks, camphor, prayer books, etc...
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When we go to some one else' home, we maintain a specific decorum by knocking their door, ringing the calling bell, etc... ( instead of simply barging in as we like, which wouldn't be a pleasing gesture to the inmates of that house )
Quite similarly, when we pay a visit to a highly sacred place that is an abode of magnanimous deities since millennia, we are ought to maintain a specific decorum by taking precautions like adhering to the specified norms of the worship / specific devotional practices prevalent over there, consulting the erudite elders / seniors over there on how to place ourselves in to the right proforma of worship, and most importantly to know what are those key things that are a strict turn off for the deity over there as per the age old tenets of worship being practiced by millions of devotees over there, so that we don't become a reason for the deity's unhappiness by our improper presence, for that treading a holy hill temple isn't the same as treading a hill station in a summer holiday's vacation elsewhere......
When we take the oath of doing something, better to do it with complete faith and respect towards that entity...
Else just refraining from the same and being idle would be the greatest noble act as that wouldn't hurt anyone... 
Hope at least the following has been recited....
"Agnyaanina mayaadoshaan asheshaan vihitaan haray...
kshmaswatwam kshmaswatwam Sheshashaila Shikhaamanay... " .. 🙏
kshmaswatwam kshmaswatwam Sheshashaila Shikhaamanay... " .. 🙏
Mallikarjuna MadhavaraputoLORD VENKATESHWARA (TIRUPATI BALAJI)
Om namo venkatesaya...
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