What if a devotee is attached only with the Radha Krishna form, not other forms or avatars?
What if a devotee is attached only with the Radha Krishna form, not other forms or avatars?
It is natural.
SRI Vaishnavas
never speak about the lilas of Radha Krishna and they follow the worship of
Lord Narayana and Vishnu.
Gaudiya
Vaishnavas prefer Radha Krishna worship. They also have the worship of Sri
Caitanya Maha Prabhu and Sri Nityanandha (Gaur Nitai), Baby Krishna, Lord
Jagannatha, etc.
You may be
aware that Hanumanji, who is the best example for devotion as a servant of the
Lord, does not prefer to see even the form of Krishna and he wanted to see only
Lord Rama and Sita devi. He did not
allow any deviations from his master Rama and Sita devi. He lived only for them.
In the stories
of puranas, we have read that once Hanuman was called by Krishna. When the
messengers called Hanuman that Krishna calls him, he did not go though Krishna
called him, saying that he will see only his master Rama.
Similarly, Gopis wanted to see only the Krishna form. They had Prema on Krishna. Prema on Rama is not possible.
Those who
develop prema on Krishna would like to worship Radha Krishna form.
See, Radha
Krishna worship is the topmost form of worship in Krishna Bakthi. We need to be
as pure as possible in thoughus, actions and even body to worship Krishna.
Even in the
new temples of ISKCON, they do not instal Radha Krishna deities because they
need many hands to follow perfect rituals. They start with Gaur Nitai deities
or Lord Jagannatha deities because they forgive any small omissions or delays
in the rituals and the level of purity is not that much required to Radha
Krishna worship. Once the temple grows
with sufficient hands to serve, they start Radha Krishna worship.
Narasimha deva
worship should be still more serious.
So, only
developed temples follow Radha Krishna and Narasimha worships.
However, some
devotees are attracted with the worship of Radha Krishna form only. This is natural. So, they can have the
worship of Radha Krishna as their primary worship and also keep Gaur Nitai as
additional worship.
And, since
Radha krishna worship requires more care, they can use Pictures of Radha
Krishna or the small deities of the height less than 3 inches.
This will
serve their desire to worship Radha Krishna form.
I like to
encourage deity worship in temples and centers only because they can maintain
the required purity standards. So, the devotees may use pictures as big as
possible with no size restrictions.
In case they
are particular about worshiping the deities, let them use small deities of less
than 3 inches height along with a bog picture of their favourite form of the
Lord – either Gaur Nitai or Jagannatha or Radha Krishna.
Anyone of any
basic standard of chanting and following four regulative principles, can
worship the picture of Radha Krishna or any other favourite forms.
So, my solution to this psychological setting of prefering a particular form of Krishna, they can follow the primry worship of their favourite form, say, Radha Krishna as big pictures and alongside the normal sized pictures of other forms such as gaur Nitai or Jagannatha or Krishna-Balarama or Baby Krishna (Bal Gopal), etc.
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