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of conscientious charity and reasoning. Thus a spiritual attitude is a thing that tends to preserve this meaningfulness and spontaneity that grows out of superconscious nature, and never does it sink into unconsciousness.
Religious practices are more often ritual habits of mind and body, as it was later shown to be in the case of tantras or mudras - sophisticated symbolisms which demand exposition and explanations that have to be preserved in traditional ways in order to be remade significantly. Much of our myths and practices are, even like dramatic art or dance, frozen symbolisms which could be understood only when their symbolisms are expounded. This varies from culture to culture and from religion to religion.
Spiritual practices are, on the other hand, serious spiritual movements and actions which release the pent up forces in matter and materialisation, or symbols and symbolisms, concealed in tantras, mantras, yantras and mudras. It is because of their compelling dynamism that they restore life to all these and show the upward movement which unfortunately had got arrested, or obstructed, by these intermediary knots of thought and action and habits of reference. Traditional explanations, however valuable in one sense, also hinder clarity and simplicity of the rites, rituals and symbolisms. Therefore the means to be adopted should be such as can never degenerate into meaningless and sophisticated habits. They should constantly enlarge the range of consciousness and make it more and more universalised. They should dynamically restore the original superconscious impulse which had led to creative evolution of the entire organism, as well as the cosmos of which the organism is a part and manifestation; which is a whole even like the Cause, and responds to the meaning and force of the Whole within it.
Thus in the normal method of creative evolution and renewal of the spiritual, what is most requisite is the dynamic awareness of the influx and interpenetration of that Superconsciousness in the very fibres and cells and atoms of our body and of the world.
The special means adopted by the Sri Ram Chandra's Rajayoga ensure that this is not merely a theoretical probability but a practical achievement. The superconsciousness is introduced into the individual's heart by the Guru or preceptor who has been made, as it were, an instrument for this purpose by the Divine.