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.
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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