According to Osho, prayer itself isn’t harmful—unless it’s a mindless ritual that replaces awareness. He jokes about the only ‘case’: a man who paused to pray in the dark reached the wrong bed, while the atheist didn’t pause. The point: without alertness, piety becomes stupidity. Real prayer is conscious presence, not superstition or habit.
If you pray without paying attention, you can blunder; real prayer means being awake to what’s happening.