(41) Temples, Prayers, Festivals, Religious Procedures, Rituals have been instituted to help mankind live with pleasure in this birth as well as in succeeding births without losing peace and happiness. But people out of madness waste their entire lives in researching whether these religious things are useful or not for them. The root, bark, leaves, flowers, of a tree may not be tasty. But the ripe fruits from the same tree is very tasty. Without understanding this, the mad man argues that tasteless root, bark, leaf, flower of the tree could never give tasty fruit. With this argument he damages himself as well as others. Because of this, the religious procedures were instituted in order to develop people who would [...] ... Read more