The International Society for Krishna Consciousness

Movement·Founded 1966 CE·No single count. The society reports several hundred temples and a congregation in the hundreds of thousands, with a much smaller full-time monastic and brahmachari population.

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Radha-Krishna, fed before anyone else eats.

The temple deities are washed, dressed, offered food and put to bed on a fixed daily schedule. Devotees describe this as service to a person present, not as symbolism.

Names & titlesKrishna; Shyamasundara; Govinda; with Radha, Radha-Krishna
DomainEverything — in this theology Krishna is the source and Vishnu the expansion
Depicted asBlue, three-bent, flute at the lips, Radha at his left
StandingGod himself, worshipped daily in the temple form and fed before anyone eats
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

ISKCON temples install murtis of Radha and Krishna and treat them as the person present, not as representation. The daily programme is a household schedule: waking, bathing, dressing in a fresh outfit, offering breakfast, lunch and evening food, and putting the deities to rest at night, with curtains drawn between services. Deity worship is performed by initiated pujaris under detailed rules, and a temple that installs deities takes on an obligation it cannot suspend. Devotees describe the relationship in terms of service rendered to someone who is there.

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