Mother agreed to be out of love to Her children, what they desired Her to be.

Degeneration that the Mother's Ideal has suffered is due to the following wrong notions. Degeneration began with identifying Mother with Māyā (माया ). Advocates of Brahman (ब्रह्मन)  theory wanted to save Brahman from the imputations of inequality, cruelty, partiality, injustice, etc., and they laid the blame on the shoulders of Māyā माया, whom they knew only as the Illusion-creator. "Thus Māyā माया, which sometimes is called Ādimāyā आदिमाया was conceived by some as the great player of jugglery, and was held responsible for the creation of the Universe, and for all that is frightful, misery-creative, ignorance-productive and so on. Hindu Mother was identified with Adimāyā आदिमाया on one hand and Māyā माया was described as the greatest heartless cheat on the other.

As per mother's (Mai's माई) Ideal, there is no indispensable necessity of assuming two entities as Brahman ब्रह्म  and Māyā माया. Brahman is Final-most Mother and She acts sometimes as passive Mother and sometimes as active Mother. 
 Creator and creation, happiness and misery, heaven and hell, deities angels and human beings, all these and the universe are not unreal. Nothing is unreal, till by actual realization these and the universe become unreal. So long as the soul has any relation with bodies, and so long as one is affected even to the slightest extent physically, mentally or spiritually, these do exist and are not unreal.

 There is no Illusion or unreality about the universe, which is managed by Mother with the highest Perfection, Justice, Law and Order as Power and Love. The realization of unreality of the universe does come in the end, to some few blessed souls, but premature prattling about unreality has been extremely dangerous.

 Next came the idea of consort-ship. The Gods Brahmä, Vishnu and Mahesh of creation nourishment and destruction had their goddesses Sävitri Lakhsmi and Pārvati as their wives an these were again confused with Mother. Sāvitri and Lakshmi played a very small part in the great work done by these Gods but Pārvati the consort of Shiva the god of destruction received greater adoration mostly out of fear and the most erroneous notion came to be that Mother was Pārvati.

Next came the idea of Power and mainly the destructive power, although of course for the destruction of evils. Naturally Parvati was in the limelight. She became Mother, but people could not leave the idea of consort-ship, and therefore Shiva was raised to the status of a counter half of Twin Duo-Monad, viz., Shiva-Shakti, much above his original status as one of the Trinity Gods. Thus arose the idea of Shiva and Shakti, one entity made of two entities, viz., that of Ardha-naarishvar. Two in one, half to half.

In times of yore, it also happened that the greatest fears arose from destiny-ruling centers of nature forces as Sun, Rains, floods, famines, epidemics, etc., and Mother went being associated with all those forces of Nature, as well. Perhaps almost every where, except for blessed few, Mother Nature ante dated and predominated over the God, and the first Divinity worshiped was in Mother's Form.

Rivers and earths and native lands became Mother. Smallpox and measles went being associated with Mother, Cow became Mother, weapons became Mother. To avert the wrathful-ness of epidemics or rain droughts Mother went being propitiated. Mother agreed to be out of love to Her children, what they desired Her to be. Just note the tremendous faith in the protection of Mother. It is only to the Mother that one can lay claim. Worship of Ganges who turns the most sinful to be sinless is as “Mother Ganges". 
The sinful cannot have the face to approach Ganges as Father, for, be it remembered that Mother alone is Mercy.

Justice demands that the sinful must suffer. The cry of “Do not look to what we are, what we have done and what we shall be (most ungrateful), but save us,” can only be addressed to the Mother, and it is therefore why Mother was and is propitiated as stated above.

What a pity! That I should have been driven by Mother to speak of Her Love to Her children ! Mother on hearing the cry, first removes the source of misery, danger or fear, and thereafter alone, approaches the child and asks, “Why did you call me?”

And the only answer that the wise have to give with joy, on being relieved of sorrow which befalls on reaching the climax of ungratefulness is, “Everything has been done by Thee, Oh Mother! Nothing remains to be done (Here which devotee will not be shedding tears!).

“Bhagavatyā kritam sarvam, Na kinchidavashishyate"

भगवत्याकृतं सर्वं न किंचित्अवशिष्यते । 

This being Mother's heart, my repeated request to those that follow Mother is that they should fail in thanks-giving, which in the case of Mother devotion has much greater importance than the prayer for relief itself.

I know my Mother's nature. She is very sportive, as every mother is to her child. She says to Her devotees, “Oh! I have done nothing to relieve you. It is your own victory. The source of misery and fear disappeared, by accident, by your own prowess.". And here the fool gets himself deluded.