Religion is just to measure the normal steps.
Mind is to hold in check.

Prosad : The theme of non-desire is vast in its scope. But with such great power as you possess, you alone can possibly condense it within manageable limits and pass it on to the sphere of desire. Through such means it may be possible to bring the individual desire under control. As soon as it comes to religion, a man faces or makes an impossible situation either in world or in society. This is what I’ve realized during my long stay in your ennobling contact.

Ma-Mahajnan : Not that, why do you make a mistake? Religion is just to measure the normal steps, to build up the household in an orderly manner. That’s indeed, religion, pure and simple—religion in its original state. From this originality one can reach into the eternal. It is in the matter of this beginning that man finds himself falling short of the standard.

The perfect household. If it happens to be not so perfect at all—the kind of perfection I’m talking about—it doesn’t matter. You won’t even find perfection, judging by the ordinary standard. What very little a man keeps him all the time busy. Why they so much are engaged, what’s the cause?

Of course you can here bring in another question—that of intellect. If a man is lacking in that, what can he possibly do? That’s all there’s to it. But intellect? I don’t find any reason in its support. In support of intellect, I mean. Do you follow?

If I can’t lead my own life following a certain pattern, would I be called at all a human being? Mind—it must rush alone with the speed of the wind. But what I desire is to hold it in check.