How do Hindus decide which gods or goddesses to worship?

If you go by Vedic injuctions, following are the Gods which every Hindu should worship: 1. KULDEVTA: The family God where one is born. 2. PACH-DEVTA: Surya, Ganesh, Vishnu, Durga & Shiva. 3. read more

Most Hindus today worship multiple Gods who may include God-men like Sai Baba. Some deities are worshiped for specialized reasons - garbarakshambigai to get pregnant and deliver the baby safely, the deities of some temples are worshiped to cure disease and so forth. read more

In my experience it is reverse. Majority of Hindus don't belong to any sampradaya and worship all Hindu gods. May be majority brahmins can be said to have traditional sampradaya but that can be doubtful in modern times with most smarta brahmins families adopting generic Hinduism with popular gurus etc than proper traditional smartism. read more