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    Kundalini: The Direction of Future Research
    Kundalini: The Direction of Future Research
    Kundalini: The Direction of Future Research
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    Kundalini: The Direction of Future Research

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    According to Gopi Krishna, Kundalini is the super-intelligent life energy in our bodies that is guiding the evolution of the human race towards a new faculty of mind—Cosmic Consciousness. He believed that research into Kundalini is the most important endeavor for humanity to undertake at this time, and that the implications of this research are so far-reaching that the very survival of the human race depends on it.
    This book gives a clear description of the avenues of research that need to be explored in order to validate the existence of Kundalini. The knowledge gained from this research will also be of great benefit to those individuals in whom this transformative process is highly active.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInstitute for Consciousness Research
    Release dateNov 25, 2015
    ISBN9780993831645
    Kundalini: The Direction of Future Research
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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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      Kundalini - Gopi Krishna

      Kundalini: The Direction of Future Research

      by

      Gopi Krishna

      Published by:

      The Institute for Consciousness Research

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      The Kundalini Research Foundation, Ltd.

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      Kundalini: The Direction of Future Research

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      International Standards Book Number: 978-0-9938316-4-5

      Table of Contents

      1. The Ancient Tradition of Kundalini

      2. Some Characteristics of an Awakening

      3. Implications of the Somatic Aspect of Kundalini

      4. The Validation of the Kundalini Mechanism

      5. Implications of Kundalini Research on Mental Health and Politics

      6. Initial Avenues for Kundalini Research

      7. The Kundalini Mechanism in Detail

      8. Additional Avenues of Kundalini Research

      References

      About the Author

      Other Books by Gopi Krishna

      1

      The Ancient Tradition of Kundalini

      The 125th verse of the 10th book of Rig-Veda is addressed to ‘Vak’, the deity of speech. In this hymn which consists of eight stanzas the goddess describes herself as the sustaining power behind all gods and human beings . . . I travel with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the Adityas and all gods I wander. She says: I hold aloft both Varuna and Mitra, Indra and Agni, and the pair of Ashvins . . . Through me alone all eat the food that feeds them, each man who sees, breathes, hears the word outspoken. They know it not, but yet they dwell beside me. Hear, one and all, the truth as I declare it. I, verily myself, announce and utter the word that gods and men alike shall welcome.

      In the Tantras Kundalini is called Vageshvari, the Goddess of Speech. The whole Sanskrit alphabet is shown on the petals of the lotuses, said to be existing at each nerve center or chakra on the spinal axis. Thou art the Fount of Speech, O, Kundalini . . . says Panchastavi (1.18). The second part of the 6th stanza of the same Vedic hymn is significant. It says: I make the man I love exceeding mighty, make him a sage, a Rishi (enlightened seer) and a Brahman. Stanza seven of the hymn runs, On the world’s summit I bring forth the Father; my home is in the waters, in the ocean. [1] The identity of this deity with Shakti of the Tantras is complete and unquestionable.

      There are other verses in the Rig-Veda in which there is unmistakable reference to Kundalini. These references take the form either of hints in the hymns devoted to the praises of various gods or of cleverly disguised allegories. For instance, the second part of the 25th stanza of the 164th hymn of the first book says: Gayatri hath, they say, three brands for kindling: hence it excels in majesty and vigor. Gayatri is undoubtedly Kundalini and the three brands are the three channels for the flow of prana—ida, pingala and sushumna. They can also signify the three padas of Gayatri or sticks for the kindling of the sacrificial fire.

      My object in drawing attention to these little understood verses in the Rig-Veda is twofold: to make it transparently clear that the seeds of this mighty discovery lie camouflaged in the Vedas, the oldest written religious scripture of the world, and secondly, to make manifest the basic similarity between the Vedic, Tantric and Puranic concepts about this divine power. I feel sure that the results of a scientific investigation on the phenomena connected with the Serpent Power would be so revolutionary that they might necessitate fresh attempts at the interpretation of the Vedas to find out the real explanation for many of the riddles contained in them.

      At many places in the Rig-Veda the hymns addressed to Soma are, in actual fact, hymns addressed to Kundalini. I have discussed this aspect of the Vedas elsewhere in detail. Here it is enough to say, that, according to all the three traditions, the Vedic, the Tantric and the Puranic, the supreme office ascribed to Kundalini is of illumination, of inspiration, of high intellectual rise and of miraculous gifts. This is repeated so often and illustrated so graphically by means of countless stories and anecdotes in the Puranas and the Tantras that it is a wonder that this important aspect of the scriptural lore of India has escaped the attention of the erudite scholars of our time.

      What has been expressed in a veiled or enigmatic form in the Vedas has been explicitly brought out in the Tantras. For instance, let us take hymn 61 of the 10th book of Rig-Veda. It is addressed to jnanam or knowledge of Brahman and higher truths of religion. The hymn is extremely hard to interpret and understand in the normal course. It deals mainly with Vak or ‘speech’. Interpreted in terms of Kundalini the reference at once becomes clear. With sacrifice the trace of Vak they followed, sings the hymn, and found her harboring within the Rishis (the illuminati). They brought her, dealt her forth in many places: seven singers make her tones resound in concert. One man hath ne’er seen Vak, and yet he seeth: one man hath hearing but hath never heard her. But to another hath she shown her beauty as a fond, well-dressed woman to her husband . . . No part in Vak hath he who hath abandoned his own dear friend who knows the truth of friendship. Even if he hears her still in vain he listens: naught knows he of the path of the righteous action . . .

      Similarly hymn 61 of the 6th book addressed to Saraswati is clearly allegoric in nature. It can apply both to Saraswati as a river and also as to the life-giving ambrosial stream of Kundalini. The description given in the text, says Griffith, can hardly apply to the small stream generally known under that name; and from this and other passages which will be noticed as they occur it seems probable that Saraswati is also another name of Sindhu or the Indus. But Indus is not seven-sistered nor has a three-fold source nor fills the firmament nor is she marked out by majesty among the Mighty Ones nor can she guide to glorious treasure nor provide with milk as the hymn says. Hymn 49 of the same book calls on Saraswati the Hero’s Consort, brisk with rare life and the Lightning’s Child, to grant inspiration. Hymn 41 of the 2nd book calls her the highest among goddesses and beseeches her to grant renown and progeny.

      What is obscure in the Vedas has been, in some cases, elucidated in the Upanishads. For instance, the 14th Brahmana of Brihad-Aranyaka-Upanishad calls Gayatri the Protectress of Vital Breaths (prana). She has not merely three padas, but a fourth one also and this fourth is the turiya state or the transcendent state attained in samadhi. The first three padas refer to the three worlds—this world, the upper and the nether one. But the fourth (Turiya) the sightly foot (Pada), says the Upanishad, "the one above the darksome, who glows yonder, is not obtainable by anyone whatsoever . . . The knowing of Gayatri is like fire. Verily, indeed, even if they lay very

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