According to Osho, idol worship is what devotional tradition becomes when the living flame of religion is gone: a fixation on footprints, relics, and forms. Tradition clings to extinguished lamps; devotion, alive, meets the master’s light here-now. Thus tradition is anti-religion, while true bhakti is present-moment awareness.
Idol worship keeps the empty shell; real devotion seeks the living light inside you, now.