In traditional Hindu belief, devout individuals can hire Brahmin priests to perform prayers (the Gayatri prayer, required 2,400,000 times in a lifetime) on their behalf if they haven't completed them, enabling people with compulsive ritual drives to make a living fulfilling these compulsions.

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you can hire a whole bunch of Hindu priests and they come and you set them up in your backyard with a big tent and you feed them all the time and you hire them to do the 2,400,000 prayers for you.

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31. Religious Belief by Robert SapolskyStanford School of Humanities and Sciences
Created: 8/12/2026, 5:59:56 PM

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