Kindly explain the sentence on Prayers, in the book📖 - The Synthesis of Yoga. "Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance."

Kindly explain the sentence on Prayers, in the book📖 – The Synthesis of Yoga. “Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance.”

Chillike form implies the words, the sentences, and outer structure given to the prayer. Childish refers to the actual content of the prayer, for example asking for all kinds of ‘impossible’ desires…