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Dynamics of Spiritual Life
Though I would present the subject in a subjective way my illuminations of this subject would be from the point of Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga, a system of realisation propounded by Sri Ramchandraji of Shahjahanpur. That does not mean that Shahjahanpur theory is a new one. It is new in so far as it tries to bring about a more, healthy and normal unification of the power of man, which have been unfortunately divorced from each other in the long history of religions, not only here but elsewhere. When I chose the subject of the Dynamics of Spiritual life, I was almost thinking about the division usually made in physics about the statics and the dynamics of matter. We have a static view of the world, a view of the world which is so fixed that we are, each one of us given a particular part to play and that alone and there is no question of evolution or growth but only emancipation from the burden of that work. So, every one of us born in this world is said to live a life in the routine way prescribed by the Sastras following certain duties, according to the status of life for the function to which one is born and according to the age to which one belongs, age group to which one belongs. Therefore, everything was said clearly and rules are being framed rather rigidly and as in all cases of rules, they need exceptions and exceptions become the rule. So much so, the rule becomes merely something in the statute and not really followed. So, the statics of our religious life in this country and elsewhere has been a growth of religious patterns of behaviour which may well be described as ritualistic patterns said to be good but really not delivering the goods. Man feels bond. He does not feel freedom even in the performance of the rituals or his duties. But, really that condition has produced one phenomenon that we in India, are considered to be Karma-bond. We are creatures of Karma and therefore we are karma ridden. Nothing can make us get out of Karma, the bond of Karma, or the bondage to Karma and all our efforts are to find out a way, by which we can get out of the bondage to Karma. Then, as it was suggested there was a heavy theory called the doctrine of Karma that our past binds us, and will bind us and we can do nothing about it. It has made it much more impossible for us to seek a doctrine of Moksha or liberation. So, so far as we are concerned, we are people obsessed by the concept of Karma and Karma in the largest sense of the word includes Dharma or duties and these