Does praying a lot make one automatically divine?
Does sitting in a meditative pose for hours mean one will automatically reach Brahman?
Unlike investing, where time spent matters, in spirituality, time spent matters, but perhaps much less.
We know of asuras who spent insane numbers of hours in penance. But are they prayed to or well respected?
If time doesn’t matter, then what does?
Perhaps the intention of the prayer matters the most. As that would cleanly differentiate prayers of the bad versus the good, wouldn’t it?
A sadhana that is practiced for the enhancement of one’s own ego becomes asuric. As simple as that perhaps. And we know what ego means – not the pride that we associate the English word with, but rather the incorrect attachment to the body.