WHO DO I WORSHIP, SHIVA, SHAKTI OR YOU?
A CONFUSED DISCIPLE ASKS

YOU DO NOT WORSHIP MY MODELS, YOU WORSHIP THE GOD REPRESENTED BY MY MODELS.  MOST MODELS ARE NOT GOD REALIZED, NOT ENLIGHTENED, NOT SAINTS, NOT AVATARS.  THEY DO NOT DESERVE WORSHIP AS INDIVIDUALS, BUT THEY CAN BE SYMBOLS OF GOD;  ONLY THAT.  YES, GOD IS IN THE ATOM OF ALL LIFE, BUT UNLESS A HUMAN IS GOD REALIZED, THEY DO NOT DESERVE WORSHIP AS INDIVIDUALS.

IT MAKES ME LAUGH TO SEE HOW CONFUSED, REMARKABLY DISORIENTED AUDIENCES GET BY READING OR SEEING A THING, AND ONE ASSUMES THEY HAVE COLLEGE-AGE ABILITY WHILE THEIR QUESTIONS PROVE THEY ARE NOT EVEN IN HIGH SCHOOL, THEY ARE THE LEVEL OF KINDERGARTEN, AND YOU DON’T EXPECT GROWN MEN AND WOMEN TO BE THAT DUMB, BUT THEY ARE.
I HOPE I HAVE ANSWERED YOUR QUESTIONS DISCIPLE K AND YOU ARE TO CONTINUE WORSHIPING ME, SENDING ME TITHES AND PRAYING TO ME, AS THE EMBODIMENT OF MOTHER GOD.  I AM GOD ON EARTH, NOT ONLY A SYMBOL.

FROM A DISCIPLE OF LONG STANDING TO RASA:
Most gracious and powerful God – First, I confess to being behind again on payments and humble ask Your forgiveness. I have been studying Your newest site. I saw somewhere that You said that both men and women were to worship Shiva (Your male models) by placing food near him, gifts or giving him money. Did I read that right Mother? How does that apply to me?
respectfully,     DEVOTEE K

HOW DO I WORSHIP?  SHIVA?  SHAKTI? 

SHIVA IS THE “MASCULINE” FORM OF GOD THE SYMBOL OF GOD IN A MAN, BUT HE IS CREATED BY “SHAKTI”, MOTHER GOD, “DURGA” MOTHER GOD.  HE IS AN EMANATION OR CREATION OF MOTHER, THE WAY A MOTHER CREATES THE BODY & PENIS OF THE BOY, AS I EXPLAIN ELSEWHERE.

MANTRAS ARE PRAYERS TO THE MASCULINE IMAGE OF GOD – LORD SHIVA AND HIS LINGAM OR PENIS – BUT THESE ARE SYMBOLS, THE INDIVIDUAL MODEL IS NOT WORSHIPED FOR HIMSELF.  IT IS INAPPROPRIATE TO WORSHIP SOMEONE WHO IS NOT GOD REALIZED.  YOU RECEIVE THEIR ENERGY, YOU RECEIVE THE LOWER ELEMENTS THAT ARE NOT REALIZED, NO EVOLVED.  WORSHIP HAS TO BE GOD CENTERED.  IF THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOT GOD CENTERED, THEN THEY DO NOT DESERVE WORSHIP, THEY HAVE NOT EARNED IT, THERE IS NO GOD CONSCIOUSNESS THERE.  IF YOU GIVE THEM WORSHIP YOU MIGHT GET THEIR ENERGY FROM THE LOWER CHAKRAS.

THOSE WHO FEEL CALLED TO WORSHIP MOTHER GOD THROUGH SHIVA AND HIS LINGAM CAN DO SO.  I HAVE POSTED WAYS PEOPE DO THAT, IN INDIA IT’S CALLED “PUJA” AND MEANS FLOWERS, CANDLES, MONEY, FOOD, PRAYERS AND SO ON; SHOWING RESPECT AND LOVE SYMBOLICALLY.  IT WOULD BE FOR SOME WOMEN AND MEN, BUT NOT ALL, JUST AS EACH RELIGION DOES NOT SERVE ALL BUT APPROPRIATE FOR SOME, OR DURING SOME PARTS OF THEIR LIFE.  FOR INSTANCE, I AT ONE TIME WAS A JESUS/MARY WORSHIPER, CATHOLIC SAINT WORSHIPER, THEN I BECAME MORE OF A YOGI WITH YOGI GURUS, SO NOW I AM GURU RASA, AND THE LAST PART OF MY JOURNEY, AND MY LAST GURU, RAMANA MAHARSHI, BROUGHT ME ITO NONDUALITY, WHERE I KNOW I AM GOD, AND THERE ARE NO MORE GURUS FOR ME.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT RELIGION, WORSHIP, DEVOTION ARE BASED ON MORE THAN ONE THING.  THERE IS THE SPIRITUAL PART OF US, THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL PART OF US.  AND THESE COMPONENTS CHANGE.

 WHEN WE ARE KIDS WE ARE DEPENDENT ON OUR PARENTS AND THE GOOD ONES GET OUR WORSHIP – THEY STAND AS REPRESENTATIVES OF GOD.  BUT AT SOME POINT WE ABANDON OUR PARENT/GURUS, EVEN REBEL AGAINST THEM, SO THAT WE CAN FIND OTHER GUIDES AND EVENTUALLY BECOME INDEPENDENT GURU-SELVES.

RELIGION IS NOT EASY TO UNDERSTAND – IT IS COMPLICATED.  LAST WEEK I HAD A HINDU BOY REPEAT TO ME WHAT IS A CLICHE IN HINDU TERMS – HE THOUGHT HE WAS BEING SO SMART, BUT I TOLD HIM TO PISS OFF, DON’T CALL ME, AND WALKED AWAY FROM HIM.

WHAT WAS IT THAT IRRITATED ME?  THIS BOY OF 20 SAID TO ME, AFTER I TOLD HIM I WAS A GURU,

“I DON’T NEED A GURU.  EVERYONE, EVERYTHING IS A GURU.  THE SUDENTS AROUND ME ARE GURUS, MY PET DOG IS A GURU, MY EMPLOYER IS MY GURU, ALL OF LIFE IS MY GURU.”

HE ALSO GAVE ME SOUNDBITES ON LUST AND PRIDE – A THOROUGHLY ANNOYING BOY, NOT READY FOR PRIME-TIME RELIGION AND NOT WORTH MY TEACHING EFFORT.

EVEN THOUGH THE BOY WAS RIGHT, AS ALL THESE THINGS DO TEACH US, THEREFORE, THEY ARE OUR GURUS, HE WAS USING THIS DICTUM TO TELL ME HE DID NOT NEED AN INDIVIDUAL HUMAN, INCLUDING MYSELF, TO GUIDE HIM.  IN THIS SENSE HE WAS REJECTING THE GOD STANDING BEFORE HIM (ME) AND TELLING ME THAT LIFE WOULD TEACH HIM BY HIMSELF, HE NEEDED NO INDIVIDUAL.
THIS IS THE TALE OF THE BOYS AND GIRLS WHO SAY,

“DON’T TEACH ME – I WILL DO IT MY WAY,”

AND THE MAJORITY OF THESE CASES DO NOT BECOME A SUCCESS, THE PATH OF DOING IT THEIR WAY IS FAILURE OR AT BEST, MEDIOCRITY, BECAUSE THEY REJECT THE HELP THAT GOD BRINGS THEM IN THE WAY THAT GOD BRINGS IT.  IN A SIMPLE AND LONG-KNOWN TERM, THEY HAVE PRIDE, THEY CANNOT HUMBLE THEMSELVES.  THAT IS WHY I TOLD HIM TO PISS OFF.  NO HUMAN CAN RECEIVE THE HELP OF THE GURU UNTIL THEY THOROUGHLY AND TOTALLY HUMBLE THEMSELVES.  THEY CAN HAVE THE IQ OF EINSTEIN, BUT WITHOUT HUMILITY, THEY CANNOT LEARN.  SO LET THEM FALL BY THEIR OWN WAY, THEY DID IT TO THEMSELVES.

NOW TO YOUR LETTER:

FROM A DISCIPLE OF LONG STANDING TO RASA:
Most gracious and powerful God -  First, I confess to being behind again on payments and humble ask Your forgiveness. I have been studying Your newest site. I saw somewhere that You said that both men and women were to worship Shiva (Your male models) by placing food near him, gifts or giving him money. Did I read that right Mother? How does that apply to me?……………………respectfully,     DEVOTEE K

RASA SAYS:
DEVOTEE K, THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU.  YOU MUST READ ALL OF A THING, NOT PART OF IT, BEFORE YOU THINK OR ESPECIALLY BEFORE YOU ACT.  I WROTE MANY ARTICLES.  YOU NOW GO TO ONE EXAMPLE WHERE PEOPLE WORSHIP SHIVA – AND I GAVE MANY PICS OF THEM DOING SO – WITH THE PUJA DEMONSTRATED.
THIS PUJA IS FINE FOR THEM AND THOSE WHO FEEL A LEANING TO WORSHIP MOTHER GOD THROUGH SHIVA – IT IS ALRIGHT FOR THEM – BUT HOW DOES IT APPLY TO YOU?
SECOND OF ALL, I DID NOT SAY TO WORSHIP MY MODELS – YOU ARE BEING SILLY.
THE MODELS ARE MODELS.  MICHELANGLO USED THE SAME MODEL FOR JESUS AND JUDAS, BY THE WAY.  THE PICTURE OF CHRIST WAS FOR CHRIST TO BE WORSHIPED, NOT THE MODEL WHO STOOD FOR HIM.
NEITHER ARE MODELS OF HOLY MARY TO BE WORSHIPED, THEY STAND AS MODELS, THEIR BODIES REPRESENT OUR HOLY MOTHER TO BE WORSHIPED.  I THINK YOU CAN SEE THAT QUITE CLEARLY?
IF ANYONE ACTUALLY WORSHIPED MY MODELS – LOL – THEY WOULD RECEIVE THE IMMATURITY AND THE DAMAGE WITHIN THESE MODELS – MOST OF THEM ARE IN BAD SHAPE INSIDE – AND THAT WOULD BE THEIR REWARD FOR THIS WORSHIP.  THE THING WE LOVE IN A DEVOTIONAL OR WORSHIPFUL WAY BRINGS THE QUALITIES OF THAT PERSONA INTO OURSELVES.
SO DISCIPLE K, YOU ARE TO WORSHIP GURU RASA VON WERDER, NO ONE ELSE, UNTIL YOUR INNER SELF TELLS YOU TO MOVE ON, AT THE TIME YOU HAVE RECEIVED ALL THAT YOU CAN FROM ME – WHICH WOULD BE FOREVER, LOL.
AND YOU DO NOT OWE MY MODELS ANY MONEY OR PUJA OR EVEN RESPECT, EXCEPT THANK THEM FOR THEIR BEAUTY AND GIVE IT HOMAGE BY A GLANCE, – THAT IS IT.