Krishna Appears by Pure Devotion

By His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaja.

The root cause of the appearance of the Supreme Lord in this world is to remove extreme separation grief of the shuddha bhakta. There are numerous avataras, but Sri Krishna is Original Bhagavan. Sri Krishna appears in His Transcendental Spiritual Form by the pure devotion in a pure devotee. We have heard from our Guruvarg that karma-kand pran pratistha is not absolutely necessary. It will be better for you to worship the portraits of manifested Deities Sri Guru Gauranga Radha-Krishna, installed by a pure devotee. In that case, if you are unable to worship the Deity due to some physical or other kind of difficulty, there will be no serious offense because you can remember that the Deities are being worshiped in the temple where they are installed. In the case when deities are installed as per prescript of vaishnava sastra, worship of those deities must be done without fail, as per regulation of vaishnava shruti, daily.