When we were very very young, we don't really know if we are praying or not. And when we've grown up we don't even remember that praying moment because we are unsure if we were really praying.
As we grow older, we start to have needs and wants. And usually we pray to God for our "wants".
As we continue praying for our wants, we will eventually come to a stage where we'd like to express our gratitude to God for giving what we want. So in this case we will have idols as "target" for us to offer physical items such as flowers and fruits and etc to express our gratitude. At this stage still we will continue to pray with "wants" in our mind.
Until one day we pray to God without any want, at that moment we are already deeply connected with God. It's a state of Total Surrender. At that time we don't really need idols anymore. We don't even need to pray physically because we are already praying all the time since we are deeply connected with God.
This is the process of Spiritual Evolution.
Different people go through different stages of spiritual evolution. Some takes longer time, some takes lesser time. It is sheer ignorance that we think we are more spiritually evolved than another guy. As spiritual evolution sometimes could happen overnight.
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