Our worshipable Deities at ISKCON Brisbane are their Lordships Sri Sri Gaura
Nitai. These are the forms of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Nityananda Prabhu who appeared on this earth five hundred years ago. Lord Chaitanya's descent was predicted in the sastras. In the Srimad Bhagavatam it is said that in the age of Kali-yuga Lord Krishna will appear in a golden colour and He will be surrounded by His associates who will be His weapons in distributing the yuga dharma of the process of realization for the age - the sankirtan of the Holy Name of the Lord.

The Deities of Gaura-Nitai are made of five metals and they were carved here in Australia - in Melbourne in the 1970's. For some time they were the resident Deities of the travelling bus program headed up by Sabhapati prabhu and they travelled all over Australia. They came to Brisbane in the 1980's after being the original Deities on the New Govardhan Farm.

The Deities are worshiped with four bhoga offerings - which means offerings of foodstuffs every day. They have their first offering at 4.10 am in the morning where they are offered four different kinds of milk sweets prepared by the devotees as well as hot milk and tulasi leaves. The second offering is at
7.40 am where they are offered a full menu of rice, dhals, sabji, etc. The next offering is at 3.40 pm in the afternoon where they are offered two different kinds of milk sweets as well as well as four different kinds of fruits, prepared by the pujaris and then at 5.40 pm they are again offered a full prasadam meal of rice, dhal, sabji, etc. The final offering is just before they take rest at night at 8.30 pm and consists of condensed milk and chewing spices.

Their Lordships are woken at 4 am every morning, after which They are offered mangala arati at 4.30 am - offered dhupa-arati at 8 am and They take rest at 11.30 am and They are again woken at 3.30 pm and given an offering of incense and flowers at 4 pm. Another full arati is offered at 7 pm daily and then Their Lordships take rest at 8.30 pm.

Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai are dressed in a different outfit everyday and They are bathed and dressed in fresh clothes every morning and sandalwood paste is offered to Their lotus feet. Every morning at 7 am the devotees greet Their Lordships.

At Gaura Purnima time Sri-Sri Gaura-Nitai are bathed and this is a very ecstatic abhishek as it not usual to see abishek performed to such large Deities.