Sweet Mother, are religious exercises very important for those who have an ordinary consciousness?
Religious exercises? I do not know! What do you mean by religious exercises?
Japa: etc.
Oh, those things! If it helps you, it is all right. If it does not help you, it is just… This is one of those altogether relative things. It is altogether relative. Its value lies only in the effect it has on you and the extent to which you believe in it. If it helps you to concentrate, it is good. The ordinary consciousness always does it just through superstition, with the idea that: "If I do this, if I go to the temple or church once a week, if I offer prayers, something very fine will happen to me." This is superstition, spread all over the world, but it has no value at all from the spiritual point of view.
