It isn’t that we don’t believe in deities. We know the deities, believe in them and the best part of it is: God Shiva Himself is teaching us the practical knowledge of becoming deities through Mahadev, the first deity among the deities, who makes deities. Through Shivbaba, we have obtained the biography of all those deities and we have also been liberated from all the rituals of bhakti. When we have found Shivbaba in the living form, why would we worship and pray to the non-living idols? Shivbaba has said in the murli: “When the night of the darkness of ignorance begins, temples are made first of all; that too of the One Shivbaba. Then, the temples of Lakshmi-Narayan [and] Ram-Sita are built. By the arrival of the Iron Age, numerous temples of Hanuman, Ganesha etc. are built.” (Murli dated 9.2.71, beginning of pg.2) It has also been said in the murli: “You have done a lot of bhakti for 63 births. Bhakti comes from many gurus, knowledge comes from the One Father. After receiving the true knowledge, you are naturally liberated from bhakti. Now, if you consider yourself a soul and remember Me alone, that is, if you remember the One Father who has come in an ordinary body, you will become pure from impure.” Still, if someone wishes to perform bhakti, we neither create a hindrance nor forbid it.
There is a great sentence in the avyakt vani: The devotees will never experience themselves as rulers. They will have the sanskaars of being devotees and of begging till the end. [They will say:] give us blessings, give us power, have mercy, give us strength, give us drishti (spiritual vision) and so on. Such sanskaars of begging and being subordinate will be seen in them till the end. They will be just in the form of students forever. Even if they are made to assimilate the elation of being children, of being the masters, of being master almighty, they won’t be able to assimilate it. They will be the ones who are satisfied with a little. … Devotees never have the power to come in the connection of the Father directly. They are just satisfied by their relation with other souls forever. (Avyakt vani dated 14.7.74, pg.109, 110)