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    An Interview in Zurich
    An Interview in Zurich
    An Interview in Zurich
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    An Interview in Zurich

    By Gopi Krishna

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    In 1976 John White, an American author and researcher, traveled to Zurich, Switzerland to interview Gopi Krishna on the subjects of Kundalini and consciousness research. In these five interviews, Gopi Krishna gives insightful answers to many basic questions about the nature of Kundalini, the evolutionary, transformative, spiritual power in the human body.

    Gopi Krishna also discusses at length how knowledge of Kundalini will transform virtually all aspects of human society, such as science, religion, education, and politics. He emphasizes that knowledge of Kundalini is absolutely essential for the human race to evolve in peace and harmony in the future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInstitute for Consciousness Research
    Release dateFeb 15, 2016
    ISBN9780993831676
    An Interview in Zurich
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    Gopi Krishna

    Gopi Krishna was born in 1903 to parents of Kashmiri Brahmin extraction. His birthplace was a small village about twenty miles from the city of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Jammu and Kashmir State in northern India. He spent the first eleven years of his life growing up in this beautiful Himalayan valley.In 1914, his family moved to the city of Lahore in the Punjab which, at that time, was a part of British India. Gopi Krishna passed the next nine years completing his public school education. Illness forced him to leave the torrid plains of the Punjab and he returned to the cooler climate of the Kashmir Valley. During the succeeding years, he secured a post in the Public Works Department of the state, married and raised a family.In 1946 he founded a social organization and with the help of a few friends tried to bring about reforms in some of the outmoded customs of his people. Their goals included the abolition of the dowry system, which subjected the families of brides to severe and even ruinous financial obligations, and the strictures against the remarriage of widows. After a few years, Gopi Krishna was granted premature retirement from his position in the government and devoted himself almost exclusively to service work in the community.In 1967, he published his first major book in India: Kundalini — The Evolutionary Energy in Man. Shortly thereafter it was published in Great Britain and the United States and has since appeared in eleven major languages. The book presented to the Western world for the first time a clear and concise autobiographical account of the phenomenon of the awakening of Kundalini, which he had experienced in 1937. This work, and the sixteen other published books by Gopi Krishna have generated a steadily growing interest in the subjects of consciousness and the evolution of the brain. He also traveled extensively in Europe and North America, energetically presenting his theories to scientists, scholars, researchers and others.Gopi Krishna’s experiences led him to hypothesize that there is a biological mechanism in the human body which is responsible for creativity, genius, psychic abilities, religious and mystical experiences, as well as some aberrant mental states. He asserted that ignorance of the working of this evolutionary mechanism was the main reason for the present dangerous state of world affairs. He called for a full scientific investigation of his hypothesis and believed that such an objective analysis would uncover the secrets of human evolution. It is this knowledge, he believed, that would give mankind the means to progress in peace and harmony.Gopi Krishna passed away in July 1984 of a severe lung infection and is survived by his three children and seven grandchildren. The work that he began is currently being carried forward through the efforts of a number of affiliated foundations, organizations and individuals around the world.

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      An Interview in Zurich - Gopi Krishna

      Gopi Krishna:

      An Interview in Zurich

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      Table of Contents

      Part 1: The Evolutionary Mechanism

      Part 2: Spiritual Advice for the Seeker

      Part 3: The Significance of Kundalini in Religion and Science

      Part 4: Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy

      Part 5: Prophecies and Natural Law

      About the Author

      Other Books by Gopi Krishna

      Part 1

      The Evolutionary Mechanism

      We are at the Kundalini Research Foundation, here in Zurich Switzerland, speaking to Pandit Gopi Krishna, at this autumn, 1976. Our moderator is John White.

      Pandit Gopi Krishna, now in his seventies, is a Yogi-scientist-philosopher. He normally resides in Srinagar, Kashmir, a province of India but he has traveled abroad in order to meet with scientists and scholars interested in his life-long work, which is Kundalini research.

      Pandit Gopi Krishna is the greatest living authority today on the awakening of the Kundalini and its entire ramification influencing every aspect of human life. He speaks of a very personal experience of his own, where the same divine power has been awakened within him after seventeen years of meditation.

      As the Pandit will explain, Kundalini research is the key to understanding every mystery and paranormal phenomenon which now defies scientific explanation. Kundalini research offers a comprehensive and testable approach to elucidating the entire spectrum of biological, psychological, sociological and spiritual experiences which constitutes human life.

      Because the work of Gopi Krishna is fundamental to the advance of science and to the future well being of global society we have asked him to give us his views on various aspects of the Kundalini experience.

      John White, who will deliver the questions, is an author and editor of numerous books and articles himself and through his research has discovered that Gopi Krishna has identified an area of crucial significance for humanity. He also recognizes that Kundalini research is the single most important topic for science to examine.

      Gopi Krishna, you are calling for the scientific and scholarly community to make an investigation into the nature of an experience called Kundalini. What does the word Kundalini mean and what is its linguistic history?

      Kundalini in Sanskrit means ‘coiled up,’ from kundala. It means ‘coiled up,’ and it refers to a force at the base of the spine which is considered to be coiled up or in a dormant form which can be aroused to activity by certain disciplines. I had no knowledge of this force. And suddenly, it leaped to activity in my case after a meditation lasting for seventeen years regularly. At the first onset I felt totally bewildered since I had neither any experience nor had read any books about it. And I was astounded and then I started to read a bit about it and I found its roots are dug deep in antiquity. The force must have been known to the Egyptians because the existence of the serpent on the headdress of the pharaohs and also the names of their Goddess Isis, signify a close relationship with this Kundalini or the Serpent Power.

      There are also other names. One other name is Shakti. Shakti means energy and prana-Shakti means the vital energy or bioenergy as now scientists call it. It was also known as the odic force or astral force or chi, by many names in the past and I have been able to trace a very direct connection between the Tantric Shakti, the Shakti of the Indus Valley civilization which flourished nearly three thousand years before the birth of Christ, with the Sumerian and Assyrian civilizations and the Egyptian civilization. In fact, I was informed by an authority on the Assyrian language that this Kundalini is derived from an Assyrian root. They have a similar word for ‘coiled up.’

      So, it has many linguistic ramifications extending to vast periods before the birth of Christ.

      So it was due to an awakening of this latent or potential energy in you after seventeen years of meditation that you were first forcibly made aware of its presence in human beings and this led you to perform a scholarly search for understanding of what was happening in your own body.

      Yes, it was a staggering experience and then once it had awakened it continued to act in my body. That was the most wonderful part of it. But, during the first few years I was totally in the dark and I was guided by intuition—something in me—how to act.

      In one particular case I remember that after the awakening I had very abnormal conditions of my mind. And then when I started to read, in one book, by accident, my eyes fell on a sentence that the sadhaka is not allowed to keep his stomach empty, but is given a light meal after every three hours. This sentence I read in Arthur Avalon’s The Serpent Power. And then I started to act on it and that helped me to survive.

      Could you describe some of the symptoms that you experienced upon the awakening of Kundalini?

      Yes. You see, the first symptom was a sensation of light in the head. It was not as if I was seeing a light or that I had an inner vision of light. It seemed as if a liquid stream of light was entering my brain. It still persists. It has not disappeared. On the other hand, it became more and more powerful and fascinating.

      During the first days it was distracting, but slowly, then, it began to acquire an enrapturing condition and now it is fascinating to a degree to which I am not able to express. It is this stream of liquid light that started to enter, from the very first day when I sat down to meditate and when the power aroused. And I felt it moving through all my nervous system, in my stomach, in my heart, in my lungs, in my throat, in my head and taking control of the whole body. That was a most marvelous experience for me, as if a new life energy had now taken possession of the body.

      An intelligent and purposeful energy.

      Intelligent, purposeful and which knew what had to be achieved, and which was aware of all the conditions and rhythms and defects of my body. Which knew every organ intimately. And then it behaved in that manner that it continued to sustain me, though every day I was thinking that I was perhaps heading towards a lunatic asylum. For months and years.

      And this experience is mentioned in the esoteric books. That is the reason why, in the book Saundarya-Lahari, written by Shankaracharya, which is perhaps one of the most authoritative books on the Serpent Power. It has 36 commentaries, and every syllable has been explained by the commentators. It is a beautiful piece of poetry. It has its own aesthetic value also.

      And in that now, from the first line to the last, the author of the book, in this case Shankaracharya, expresses his humble submission to the power to which he attributes his life, all that he has gained, his genius, his breath, and everything that he owns on the earth, in fact, the moment Kundalini begins to circulate, man’s pride falls to the ground. He then sees for the first time that he is not the master of the body, that there is an energy, a life energy—super-intelligent and loving as a mother. That is the reason why Kundalini is always addressed as a mother—jagat-mata—the mother of the world and the mother of the human system. Mata, in both Saundarya-Lahari and Panchastavi, you will find it written as a mother, that there is a mother which is the real parent of this body.

      In fact, it is this Kundalini, this energy which keeps our body in shape, which digests our food, which when we sleep tones up the brain, clears it of poisons, which sustains us in illness and which, when an accident occurs, and say a skull is broken, or there

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