Kundalini: Questions and Answers

By Gopi Krishna

According to Gopi Krishna, humanity has now reached a critical stage in its evolution where those who are concerned with its well-being—spiritual or temporal—need to be aware of the still-unknown laws governing this process. In this book, he answers many basic questions about Kundalini, the super-intelligent agency in our bodies that is guiding our evolution to a higher dimension of consciousness. He also answers many profound questions about our spiritual nature, and describes the way that the existence of this amazing, super-intelligent principle in us can be verified.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Institute for Consciousness Research
• Release date: Oct 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9780993831669

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: Questions and Answers

An Interview with

Gopi Krishna

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Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: What is Kundalini?

Part 2: Do Enlightened Individuals Possess Genius?

Part 3: About Increased Efficiency of the Brain.

Part 4: What is it That Makes the Ego?

Part 5: How Can Kundalini be Verified Scientifically?

Part 6: Christian Mystics and Spiritual Marriage.

Part 7: The Implications of Continued Evolution.

Part 8: What About Survival After Physical Death?

Part 9: Author’s Own Experience of the Superconscious State.

About the Author

Other Books by Gopi Krishna

Preface

Scientists in general, and biologists in particular, prefer to shut their eyes to what is the obvious explanation for the progress made by mankind thus far, because the implications of continued biological evolution of the human organism are too terrific to contemplate. In the first place, it shatters one of the fundamental concepts of biology—that evolution is not predetermined and has occurred by random mutation of the genes. The second issue raised is, what is the target of this evolution?

If the target is a more elevated state of consciousness, the conclusion becomes irresistible that there is a plan in creation, which shatters the materialistic concepts of modern science. The third issue which arises is, if there is a biological evolution of the brain, how does it influence our social, political or religious life, and what steps are necessary to take to conform to this irresistible change in the structure of the brain.

The host of social, political, economic, spiritual, and philosophical problems, which the acceptance of this single idea involves, is so vast that the average intelligent mind is incapable of dealing with it. Once the idea is accepted, after clinical verification, there will occur an upheaval in every sphere of human activity and thought. The world will not then be what it is now, and humankind will not continue to live in the same way.

Part 1

What is Kundalini?

What is consciousness?

Human consciousness signifies a state of awareness of the world and also of the observer himself. It is the soul or spirit within us that is aware.

What are the different states of consciousness?

Wakefulness, dreaming, deep sleep, and then there is a fourth state also, which in Sanskrit is called turiya, a state of awareness of superconscious existence.

What are the different levels of consciousness?

There is a subhuman level of consciousness, which is the consciousness of animals, birds, fish, reptiles, etc. Below it is the consciousness of the vegetable kingdom. Above the animal level comes human consciousness, with its self-conscious ego and intellect. There is a still higher form of consciousness attainable by men and women through spiritual exercises, or even spontaneously, by the awakening of Kundalini.

What is Kundalini?

Kundalini is a divine energy represented by the ancient Indian Masters in the form of a serpent, coiled three and a half times, lying asleep until it is awakened, after which it can, in some cases, bestow super-consciousness. Kundalini has been called a goddess, who is guarding a mighty dormant force in the human body, located at the base of the spine. Actually, it is both a force and the controlling mechanism of the force.

What is this force?

As the ancient writers have said, it is the vital force or prana which is spread over both the macrocosm, the entire Universe, and the microcosm, the human body.

What about the atom?

The atom is contained in both of these. Prana is life-energy responsible for the phenomena of terrestrial life and for life on other planets in the universe.

What is the origin of life?

Prana.

Do saints and seers experience prana?

Yes, positively.

That means that Christian and Jewish saints are aware of it.

Certainly.

When we speak of the grace of God, is prana, according to you, the grace of God?

Prana is the vehicle of the grace of God.

Does it mean that the grace of God is something spiritual and that prana, the vehicle of it, is something material?

Prana in its universal aspect is immaterial. But in the human body, prana creates a fine biochemical substance which works in the whole organism and is the main agent of activity in the nervous system and in the brain. The brain is alive only because of prana.

Is there only one kind of prana, or are there different kinds?

There is only one kind of universal prana, but its manifestation in the body takes different shapes.

What does it mean when someone says that he or she has aroused Kundalini?

When referring to the dormant energy in the body, Kundalini signifies a mechanism at the base of the spinal cord which controls the regulation of a higher form of prana to the brain.

It seems, then, that there is one universal prana, but that the manifestation is different according to the different levels of the people?

Yes.

What is this dormant energy at the base of the spine?

It is a higher or more purified form of vital energy in the body, stored in the nerves, which supply the reproductive and the evolutionary systems.

So there are different forms of prana in a single human?

Yes.

What is the evolutionary system?

It is the cerebrospinal system and the reproductive apparatus both combined. The brain and the nervous system are in a state of constant change. The change is so slight and so imperceptible that it cannot be detected even by the most powerful microscope, or for that matter, by any other instrument devised by science up till now.

So evolution is going on by the change of the brain and the nervous system. But how is this change brought about, spiritually or physiologically?

A human being is spirit and body. For the proper expression of the spirit, the body has all along continued in a state of evolution. The spirit itself is the prime mover in this evolution, but its wish can only find fulfillment when the body evolves sufficiently to enable better expression of the spiritual within.

What has to be evolved in the body, the nerves and the brain or are other glands and organs involved?

The whole body has to evolve, but the impulse of evolution comes from the brain and the nervous system, which are the connecting link between the spiritual and the physiological world.

Can a person make a free decision to evolve, or does it go on automatically?

The surface consciousness is not ordinarily capable of causing radical physiological changes in the vital organs at will. It is the whole mind with the authority of the Spirit which is able to do so. As such, evolution is proceeding automatically, so far as the surface consciousness is concerned.

How can a person go about arousing Kundalini?

As was said, the human body is in a state of evolution. The ultimate aim of this evolution is to have a higher state of consciousness with an awakened Kundalini. Those men and women who are already evolved to some extent can arouse Kundalini

Reviews for Kundalini

[Leyland Burgess · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

His idea for a new world is radical but I think possible. I have experienced enough of the symptoms of an awakening kundalini to know that the author is honest and the description of his experience is genuine.