>Daily meditation was the requirement of the SS< In Ramayana you have description of demon Ravana and his Rakshasa army. They also followed and practised Vedic rituals, but with one difference - for realisation of selfish aims - power, money and pleasure.
Lord Krishna in BG describes 2 types of human nature: divine and demonic one. It is up to us what we are going to choose - for what purposes we are going to perform spiritual practices - to realize God (Supreme Transcendental Realty) or to use spiritual practices to harm others. In TM movement you have the same situation: some people are looking for Divine, some for power, money and pleasures.
