I recently discovered this channel on YouTube. Still exploring it. Nish the Fish seems to be associated with the Ramakrishna Mission, but also practices Kashmiri Shaivism.
In this clip, he discusses “who can worship Kali”. Or other controversial Hindu deities: Bhairava, Shiva in his Nataraja form, or Gopala (a mischievous and/or erotic form of Krishna as a child).
The short story is that you can worship any deity you chose in an informal bhakti manner, but formal Tantric puja requires initiation by a qualified guru. I suppose there is some spiritual truth in this: compare priests presiding over mass in Christianity, which requires actually being ordained (a kind of “initiation” in sacramental Churches), while anyone can pray the rosary, sing devotional hymns, and so on.
Still haven´t found the video in which he explains what god/goddess to worship in the first place!
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