Description of Pancha Tattva should be done
Govinda Dasi : When the Sri Sri Gour Nitai Deities were finally complete, and Their jewelry was beautifully crafted, and They had seven sets of clothes, we took Lord Nityananda down to our tiny temple garden. There, beneath Lord Chaitanya's mango tree (the one that regularly offered incredibly delicious mangos to Srila Prabhupada), we did a photo shoot. Shakti Mati knelt down nearby, and I knelt down next to Lord Nityananda's Lotus Feet, just touching the lotus base.
Then we sent the photos to Srila Prabhupada. We were eager to have him come to Hawaii to install our new Gour Nitai Deities! Srila Prabhupada was very happy with the pictures. However, his response came as a great surprise! He told us, "Oh, very nice. So now you have done Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda so nicely. So now you should also do Pancha Tattva!"
He then described how each of the Others should look: He said Sri Advaita should have white hair and a white beard, Sri Gadadhar should look very much like Lord Chaitanya but without a crown, and Srivasa should have a shaven head and knotted sikha, since he was a brahmachari.
He told us that only Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda should wear crowns, not any of the Others. And, he said, "They should all be dressed like Bengali gentlemen, wearing the sankirtan clothes as in the house of Srivasa - dhoti, kurta, and chadder. They should look like sankirtan dancers, as Lord Chaitanya's main message was propagating this Hare Nama sankirtan movement."
Srila Prabhupada also told us that the Lord's opulence is hidden in this incarnation, so They should appear just like Lord Chaitanya's sankirtan party - singing and dancing in the home of Srivasa. He also said Lord Chaitanya should always be worshipped as a householder, never as a sannyasi. To see Lord Chaitanya as a sannyasi, Srila Prabhupada said, "is very painful to the devotees. They cannot bear the thought of the Lord taking so much trouble. So he is worshipped always as a householder, with his sankirtan party and His close associates, the Pancha Tattva."
After recovering from the shock of the new instructions, we immediately began to try to figure out how to do as he asked. Our expert sculptor/moldmaker, Vrishni das, who now lived at our temple as a full-time devotee, had no difficulty modifying the mold. He figured out a way that we could make new forms of Sri Advaita and Srivasa, with folded palms, as described by Srila Prabhupada. Our main problem now was finding matching cloth for the other sets of clothes, but somehow this also was done. And so we set about making the forms of Sri Advaita, Sri Gadadhar, and Srivasa.
More blending paper mache, pressing molds, drying, sanding and painting soon followed. Such was the magic of our beloved Srila Prabhupada. He not only gave us instructions; he also sent others to help us fulfill his instructions. In this way, it was "good for us, and good for those who helped us."
Reference: www.govindadasi.com
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