One is the authority of religion, the other is the authority of esotericism, and the third is the prophet. Only when on the spiritual path, what one has to be careful of is this, that too much conventionality and rule and direction of life may bury a soul. Because very often where people regard the rigid rules and conventionalities they become so narrow and so external that everything must be just like this, and if it was not like this, then it is a sin. Hands must washed at a certain time, feet must be washed at a certain time, the clothes must be in this way, one must stand in that way, look in that way, act in a certain way. And if it is not done, then it is not right, it is a sin. And in all parts of the world you will see that the minister will have his whip raised when a person has not done things that they ought to do rightly in their lives.