The real question is why Mother is considered offensive.

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> > > And if you're going to lean on the tired old line of "women should be

> > > seen as mother," then reconsider: Just because a woman is considered

> > > "mother" doesn't negate the fact that she is also "master."

> >

> > Excuse me, mother, it is because women are mother that they are also

> > master. Mother is the first guru in the life of every human being. No

> > man can disobey mother, not even Pandavas, the most powerful men that

> > walked on this earth. Therefore, desire to be honored as mother.

>

> I desire to be honored as nothing, thanks all the same. But if I was going

> to be "honored" as anything, I'd like to be honored for being a devotee.

> Not a male or a female. A devotee.

 

Understood, but it is not that you have to receive the honor for yourself,

rather you may, as a humble devotee, accept this particular honor in order

to help the males purify themselves by learning to see and address every

woman as mother. It is a time-tested process. Sooner or later the symbology

will give way to actual higher consciousness if we keep practicing the

formula given by the acharyas. Besides, its a two-for-the-price-of-one

package deal, respect and authority for women at the same time, who would

pass up a deal like that?.