Dear Sangom Ji,
I am a bit confused now reading this.
Elsewhere you are Advaitic and beyond and state that God verily Is(which I fully agree) but at the same time how does this jive with the fact that a deity should be feared and not displeased and consult and astrologer for to rid of the mantra effect.
If God verily Is..then what about Tantric deities? Do they even matter?
Smt. Renuka,
It is a question of how each person regards (perceives, looks at, worships, etc.) the one God which simply
is. Tantra looks at god as the culmination of the sexual act or union; in a way, Tantra seeks to equate the orgasmic experience to the self-realization experience, as a first step. Tantra has its own rules. So, when you start practising something which is part of Tantra, which is a set of man-made rules, one has to follow the rules completely and faithfully, because, any kind of worship of god is, in the ultimate analysis, an exercise of the mind; mind creates the god, mind says that the god is pleased if a certain system of worship is done, mind says that the said god will grant you boon, mind says that the said god will come at the appointed time (of death) and take you to his vaikuntha or some other region, and so on.
In the case of Tantric deities, the mind is asked to give shape to gods or deities which are pleased under one set of conditions and are extremely displeased, angry, vengeful, etc., if their worship is discontinued suddenly. Hence, though the ultimate cause may be the mind, the mind-created Tantric deity will take its toll, at some future time. It is to free the mind from such a happening to occur, that the pariharams like visarjana of the mantra (by reciting it thrice in the ear of a cow) and UccADanam of the Tantric deity etc., are advised. I will say that these are like preventives in the medical system.
You may be knowing that science has come very, very close to advaita:
BBC - Earth - Why is there something rather than nothing?
Hope my explanation is satisfactory.