First Class Service

Always do a first class job in your service to Krishna because your Krishna consciousness depends on it. In other words you can only be Krishna conscious to the extent that your service is nicely done. If you do tenth class service, your Krishna consciousness will be tenth class. And if your do first class service, your Krishna consciousness will be first class. You can learn how to do first class service from those devotees whose service is first class. So full advantage of advanced association and become a first class devotee.

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Why is Krishna Accepted as Supreme?

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,

Why does ISKCON accept Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead? What is the position of the devatas and avatars?

Your servant,

R.K.

Answer: Vedas and Great Sages Confirm This

ISKCON accepts Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because this is the ultimate conclusion of the Vedic literatures and all the great acharyas. And this is confirmed by Sri Arjuna as follows in the Bhagavad-gita:

arjuna uvāca
paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma
pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān
puruṣaṁ śāśvataṁ divyam
ādi-devam ajaṁ vibhum

āhus tvām ṛṣayaḥ sarve
devarṣir nāradas tathā
asito devalo vyāsaḥ
svayaṁ caiva bravīṣi me

"Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ultimate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth. You are the eternal, transcendental, original person, the unborn, the greatest. All the great sages such as Narada, Asita, Devala and Vyasa confirm this truth about You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me."
---Bhagavad-gita 10.12-13

The devatas or demigods are the various controllers of the universal affairs such as the wind and the rain. They are servants of the Supreme Lord. They are not the Supreme Lord. The different avatars such as Lord Rama and Lord Nrsimhadeva are Krishna Himself manifesting in different pastimes for the pleasure and protection of His devotees.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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