J Nagarathna: there is no need to go into the test of essential religious practice. An impression has been created that its only essential religious practice that has to be protected and nothing else.

Subramanium: this is, if i may say so, if the judgment suggests and I will not personally think they go that far to suggest that if its not essential religious practice, it denigrates into a non religious practice or will become a pratice capable of regulation. I don't think any judgment goes that far. But I would submit if essential religious practice is intended in aid of discovering the true components of that particular religion