Namaste.a genuine doubt.does being a staunch advaitist stop me from reaching devi.for context I find it impossible to pay special or more respect to women like the traditional shaktas prescribe as i as a advaitist was thought that all living things are divine and genders are just a maya
Now my feelings of not paying extra respect to women doesn't come from misogyny or ego.butbi refuse to believe that gender which is pure illusion should command what makes one sacred and what doesn't.now this doesn't mean that iam patriarchal or misogynist.i see no difference between a women and men as a man which is why I feel personally that I shouldn't keep them.on a higher pedastal.i have great bhakti for devi though.but I still refuse to see women as devi because it literally says ya Devi Sarva bhooteshu which means o the godess present in all living beings.and as a advaitist saying that all women are godess i feel I am trying to reduce devi the source of all creation to just a women's godess.and to summarise everything i shun all types of difrentiation or discrimination and has baseline respect for everything.can I continue with this baseline respect for everyone equally without putting either of genders or caste on a higher pedastal and gain devis blessings