Then a religion began to develop around it, and there appeared forms, and the forms lost their functionality. If you give a monkey a coin every time it does a certain trick, so that it can buy bananas, at some point the monkey begins to do the trick just to get the coin. That's called capitalism. When they have all the food they need and everything they could possibly want, they begin to amass these coins far beyond any redeemable value. Rules appear, religion appears, and there is suffering because people are then judged relative to these rules.
Rules lose their functional meaning.
Bowing stops being a practice of appreciation and becomes a practice of deference. A sense of dualism. The practice of bowing loses its function, its purpose, as an expression of one's true nature. Giving becomes an obligation. We begin to tithe.