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[Guest guest]

More properly, the latter is considered the more religious man, for

religion in India is to each man his own private affair. In the house

of every man there is either a little chapel, or a room set apart,

and there he goes morning and evening, sits down in a corner, and

there does his worship. And this worship is entirely mental, for

another man does not hear or know what he is doing. He sees him only

sitting there, and perhaps moving his fingers in a peculiar fashion,

or closing his nostrils and breathing in a peculiar manner. Beyond

that, he does not know what is brother is doing; even his wife,

perhaps, will not know. Thus, all worship is conducted in the privacy

of his own home.