To earn the full benefit of owning a lord Ganesha idol at home, one must submit prayers every day. It would be nice if you had a tiny piece of items like rice, ghee, flowers, fragrance sticks & kumkum in a pooja thali. After collecting all these items, you should ignite the Diya and incense candlestick and apple kumkum blended with rice to the Ganesha murti and chant the Ganesh mantra with your eyes shut.