Religious scholars propound a theory that Deity Idols radiate a divine aura which is intense around it and becomes weaker as distance from the idol increases. Going around the idol gives the devotee a benefit of getting charged with that good energy. The mode of rotation is prescribed as from idol’s right hand towards the left hand from frontal position. That makes it anti-clock wise rotation. The clockwise movement is particles and biological energy particles tend to come on a collision course. So, it is not a healthy act and spiritually unproductive or even destructive.
There is a very scientific explanation to rationalize this act. Rotation is the fundamental motional law of the universe. The rotation is the very basic act of creation. Satellites rotate around planets. The planets go around stars and in our case the sun. The sun along with its planetary rotational set-up called solar system goes around the center of the Milky way galaxy. Our Milky way galaxy rotates around the center of the rotational arrangement of electron, proton and neutron going around and around the nucleus. Thus, the going around activity is the very fundamental act of universal physical dynamics.
Hinduism sees the physical manifestation of God in all the heavenly bodies namely sun, moon, planets, constellations, stars and galaxies. Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn are revered gods of Hindu pantheon as Ravi, Som, Mangal, Budh, Brihaspati, Shukra and Shani respectively. All the stars represent various sages, angels,holy men and the other great ones of the past.
So, a Hindu faithful duplicates the basic planetary motion of rotation. Symbolically a devotee goes around his worship deity just like a satellite goes around a planet held on by gravitational forces. In this case the force is his devotion to that particular deity.In this process he pays obeisance to the cosmic law of rotation.
anti-clock wise rotation. The clockwise movement is particles and biological energy particles tend to come on a collision course. So, it is not a healthy act and spiritually unproductive or even destructive.