ubramanium: your lordships must have a tool by... ... Sabarimala Reference | Live Updates From Supreme Court 9-Judge Bench [Day 7]

ubramanium: your lordships must have a tool by which we are able to deal with it. that is why mylords in two of the judgments employed a test, which is also correct, because you cant have a one line test, there are multiple factors. you can use the test of an obligatory act and then it becomes central to religion. I am giving am example from the decided case of Chief Justice Das in Hanif Qureshi's case where he referred to a certain act not being obligatory. Justice Ray to

Nariman's judgment, where he said that a certain act is not treated as an act commendable, exalted by scripture and therefore it can't be treated as something integral.

So the words integral and essential need not cause, if i may say so, any kind of turbulence or interpolation as far as dealing with the questions concerned. mylords have very firm terra firma to deal with this question. And only point where I see and support all my colleagues is in the matter of extent of personal faith and expereicne which a person and individual worshipers has, that is not the area of inquiry.