ISKCON Arcana journal

Welcome to the ISKCON Arcana Journal, a magazine dedicated to Deity Worship, and produced by the ISKCON Ministry for Deity Worship. If you don't know what deity worship is, then this is the place to find out! If you do... enjoy the magazine and feel free to send an article for the next issue!

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What is Deity Worship?

Deity Worship, or Arcana, is the worship of God (Krishna or an incarnation of Krishna) in a physical form, according to procedures laid down in the ancient vedas (lit. "knowledge") and taught personally by spiritual master to disciple.

Catholics practice a similar form of worship when they offer flowers, candles and prayers to figures of Lord Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, and the saints.

In the Bhakti-sandarbha, Jiva Gosvami has stated that those who are actually very serious about devotional service do not differentiate between the form of the Lord made of clay, metal, stone or wood and the original form of the Lord. In the material world a person and his photograph, picture or statue are different. But the statue of Lord Krishna and Krishna Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are not different, because the Lord is absolute.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila 5.226 purport

Our beautiful story by Ravindra-svarup dasa, Encounter with the Lord of the Universe, explains how the Founder-Acharya of the Hare Krishna movement, Srila Prabhupada, introduced and explained Deity worship to the early devotees and the Western world.

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