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magnificent here (Mother points to the heart).
(CWM 6: 324-25)

Religious ceremony
I assure you what I am telling you is very serious: if you seat
a real god in a chair and oblige him to remain there all the while
you are doing puja, he may perhaps have a little fun watching you
do it, but it certainly gives him no satisfaction. None at all! He
does not feel either flattered or happy or glorified by your pujas.
You must get rid of that idea. There is an entire domain between
the spiritual and the material worlds which belongs to vital be-
ings, and it is this domain that is full of all these things, because
these beings live upon that, are happy with it, and it immediately
gives them importance; and the one who has the greatest num-
ber of believers, devotees and worshippers is the happiest and the
most puffed up. But how can anyone imagine that the gods could
value... The gods—I am speaking of the true gods, even those
of the Overmind, though they are still a bit... well, so-so... they
seem to have taken on many human defects, but still, despite all
that, they really have a higher consciousness—it does not please
them at all. An act of true goodness, intelligence, unselfishness or
a subtle understanding or a very sincere aspiration are for them
infinitely higher than a small religious ceremony. Infinitely! There
is no comparison. Religious ceremony! For example, there are so
many of these entities called Kali—who are given, besides, quite
terrible appearances—so many are even placed in houses as the
family-goddess; they are full of a terrible vital force! I knew people
who were so frightened of the Kali they had at home that indeed
they trembled to make the least mistake, for when catastrophes
came they thought it was Kali who sent them! It is a frightful
thing, thought. I know them, those entities. I know them very well,
but they are vital beings, vital forms which, so to say, are given a
form by human thought, and what forms! And to think that men

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