We are using a feminine metaphor for the Avatār because we are Nature herself incarnated.

The Avatār spawns Life out of herself, and in our early level of existence we get a wild orgy of Creation, and the psychic imprints of these water creatures of Life like Mermaids, Sirens, Apsaras manifest themselves in Beings around us. 

When Humans get mesmerized with these watery delights we only see Life's Beings and not the Being in Life.

Objectifying these Beings for selfish pleasure alone results in a transgression of Life itself.

Water is how Life begins anyway, so we are not judging the seductive Nature of watery Beings, but we are pointing out the frailties of the Human Mind that gets stuck even while it has infinite curiosity to expand into the vastness of its entire Universe.

Vedic rituals recognize the fundamental nature of Water, so too we always use water infused with Mantras to purify the place, the food, the bath, so that we keep purifying existence. When we drink water, we hold our palms around or on her, being fully present in her life-giving presence, whisper a Mantra to blend with her magic, and when we drink of her from a glass we take care not to touch our lips to her because that intimate touch could disturb her presence as she enters us. This is how Veda honors water so deeply.

Messing up Water or misusing Watery Beings is Pāp, because this fundamentally stops flow in our Svā-dhisthana chakra which is where we locate our physically embodied Self in Tantra. 

This blockage results in a confusion of identity, and prevents meaningful communications because the Being does not have a healthy sense of Self. If there is internal strife in a home or the land where no one understands each other, then know that the Svā-dhisthana chakra of the Being in that space’s Body has been violated, that is its rivers or literally the water Body is polluted. If you don’t understand this, slowly & mindfully take a sip of water as suggested above.

Then our Avatār manifests herself as the One Being, where she is the Universe, into a more holy Human life and we find perfection in her paradise. 

This word paradise comes from Farsi-Urdu purdāh meaning a cloak or a veil - that is, the devout Human wants a walled in paradise where everything is perfect like the garden of Eden. 

We worship our Avatār, the goddess that she is. 

There is a catch though - because the word 'holy' comes from 'whole' and how can there be something that is holier than the whole itself?

This is a metaphor for Religion and all its unholy (not whole, hence fragmented) edifices stemming from error of perception. 

A Rishi is known as a Seer through this veil of Māyā and burns it down to reveal the actual Oneness of all beyond the duality of desires/aversions, the Self & Nature herself.

The burning is called Tapas, superficially similar to a super-hot Spanish dish -  intriguing at first, then crazy burning from the inside out, and eventually cleansing out our insides. 

The big difference is that Yogic Tapas, instead of numbing the palate, leaves the nervous system far more sensitized to our entanglements with Thought and all its downstream consequences.

The Oneness is not the One Being which we worship on the outside, but is pure infinite potential which we shape with our own perceptions. 

The Rishi having done their work to show our Avatār as the energy of Oneness, and not just the One embodied Being, now makes her available for us to download into our world.

This vision of Universal grandeur compels us to open our Hearts to fully accept being an embodiment of our Avatār for this totality of Life. 

We are now the One that we worshipped on the outside, but now there is no duality of inside/outside and the Avatār is now in full flow of Creative Self-Expression. 

That is we are Self-actualization our material reality, and also letting it go with the Self-realization that we are not bound to a particular form of the Avatār either.

Because being bound leads to bondage and although useful as a tool of expression - even those silken fetters we let go.

Our Avatār within us now says screw you to the limited thinking that we need something downloaded from the outside to be Whole. 

But she does this with all her feminine charm & grace so the realization is without conflict and we are willing to strip ourselves to the essence of who we are.

We realize now we were always already whole to begin with - we just didn't know it!

Now we think we are this amazing Being, like Vishnu incarnate, riding on the wings of the eagle Garuda the embodiment of the Veda itself:

अहमस्मि ब्रह्मा अहमस्मि  "Aham asmi Brhma, Aham asmi!“

“I am Brhman, indeed I am!"

• thus say the Upanishads of Brhman, the word literally meaning a Broad (or vast) Mind.

This vision is depicted in a very curious bird that is full of wonder, and full of itself too! 

Again the word paradise in our verse, the purdāh veil, is in play as a magical tropical bird. 

But our Avatār moves through us which means she transforms us and moves on, and this is accompanied by the churning of our entire consciousness with the power of our spirit itself. 

This churning is a cosmic Yagnya, an offering of our entire Brhman Self into the flames for complete transformation of our accumulated knowledge.

But this is no sacrifice - for in any case all our particles are always a part of the Universe itself.

This churning is of the whole Universe with our God-Self led by a conviction beyond blind faith. 

We find our inner cosmic Rhythm (sanskrit Ritam) to power us, aligning ourselves to Truth in this cyclic Universe, discerning the right moves with intelligence, and fully integrated with Yoga.  

And when this Yagnya completes, our breath of Life awakens from this dream of a Creator, for that concept is but another Thought form that traps us in a mental prison.

The whole journey pauses now and we fully absorb it: the Yoga to sensitize the nervous system, the rituals of Veda to scale this for Humanity, and the Vedānthic wisdom of the Upanishads to totally erase this memory of accumulated knowledge arising from the movement of Thought.

We rest now in the bliss of Ānanda.

Nothing remains except the nothingness of infinite potential leading to fullness again, as we choose.

Our sense-abilities are so fine-tuned we can merge with the purest of Nature’s watery Beings as we perceive their true elemental nature with no distortion by conditioning or entanglement.

We are back in Tantra now, at the start of Creation itself.

There is no worshipper or worshipped, we are Worship alone. 

This Song of Worship is the PuJā - literally the Pure Generation of Thought.

And any Thought Form that emerges is perfected, without entanglement, as we are 100% pure.

Such Thought arises from Intent alone, from Wholeness itself, with no fragmentation.