Gurunathar’s Divine Message Moolam Pooja 29-09-2006
A person keeps asking a question, “To what gender does God belong and how should we worship Him?”
Let us note that every human being has a male and a female aspect to his or her personality. The male aspect contributes steadiness of mind and peace and the female aspect contributes strength, desire and action. This applies to everybody. I have mentioned before sometimes woman become aggressive and do the jobs that can normally done by men. Similarly men sometimes maintain silence, or cry or weep and withdraw into themselves. This is due to the feminine quality of their personalities. Where God is concerned there is no gender–He is above this. God cannot be restricted to a set of qualities, desires or wishes. He is pure absolutely completely pure! The name ‘Suddha Sivam’ describes this well. If this is so, why do we give God male and female forms when we worship Him? This is not God’s handiwork. He chooses to reveal Himself and bless us in the forms that mankind has given to him through their imagination.
There is another traditional doubt that arises in men’s minds. Is Lord Shiva superior to mother Shakthi or is it Goddess Shakthi who is superior to Lord Shiva? The reality is God is within each of us. How then do we perceive God within us? Since we have male and female qualities God is both Mother and Father in the female and male qualities of each person. Which form you worship is your individual choice. You worship God in the form you like best and He will appear to you in that form. There is no confusion in this. However I will emphasis that God has no gender.
{Translation of Gurunathar’s Divine message given to and read by Guruji Shri.K.V.Narayanan}