Original sentence: According to Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, “This is similar to our ability to communicate with others through the telephone.In such a sense, a murti would be better translated into common English parlance as 'icon' (or an image) rather than 'idol'.Murtis are sometimes abstract, but are almost always representations of God in humanlike forms like Shiva or Ganesh, Rama or Krishna, Saraswati or Kali.Some Hindu denominations like Arya Samaj, however, reject image worship.Some say that the presence of murtis in Hindu temples and shrines provide a mystical form of communication with Devas.Thus the murti is regarded by Hindus and also by some Mahayana Buddhists during worship as a point of devotional and meditational focus
Edited sentence: In such a sense, a murti would be better translated into common English parlance as 'icon,' (or an image) rather than 'idol'.Murtis are sometimes abstract, but almost always representations of God in an anthropomorphic or zoomorphic forms like Shiva or Ganesh, Rama or Krishna, Saraswati or Kali.Murtis in Hindu temples and shrines are a mystical form of communication with Devas.Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami explains: “This is similar to our ability to communicate with others through the telephone.Some Hindu denominations like Arya Samaj, however, reject image-worship.Thus the murti is regarded by Hindus and also by some Mahayana Buddhists during worship as points of devotional and meditational focus