Kundalini - doorway of evolution
Gopi Krishna was a rather ordinary office worker in India. Like many others in that country he practiced Yoga, in his case by concentrating on an image of a lotus in full flower at the top of his head.
Late in 1937, as he sat meditating in his apartment, he began to feel a powerful energy at the base of his spine. He kept his attention on the crown chakra as he "felt a stream of liquid light entering my brain through the spinal cord". (page 12)
For the next 25 years this energy, continually flowing up the spine, reworked and refined the organs of his body, after many difficulties opening his consciousness to an unimaginable dimension of bliss.
This is Kundalini, the human manifestation of Shakti - the divine creative force. In Tantric lore Kundalini is said to be a serpent coiled sleeping around the base of the spine in every human. Very few manage to awaken Kundalini, and it is highly dangerous to do so, leading, without severe discipline, into madness or death.
Gopi Krishna's book "Kundalini - the Evolutionary Energy in Man", from which the quotes in this article are drawn, is an attempt to understand Kundalini in modern terms. For this "liquid light" is nothing less than the mechanism of the next phase in human evolution.
Repressed sexuality is basic to many theories of mental disease. The pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich is focused on releasing the bodily stresses that inhibit the free flow of streaming energy from the sexual centers. But even Reich did not suspect the immense power that lies dormant there.
The energy that was released in Gopi Krishna was intelligent - it cleared its' own path and re-designed, over many years, the functions of the body, while demanding a large and high quality diet and a quiet, simple life. This is the reverse of Reich's methods, for he tried to open the energy pathway through emotion release, body work, and orgone (life energy) concentrators. But, Reich saw, as Krishna did, that the process was a natural one, inherent in the structure of our beings.
Kundalini immediately became the dominant force in Gopi Krishna's life, again and again pushing him to the brink of destruction: "... My whole system was functioning in an altered manner, forced to a far higher pitch of metabolic activity under the compulsion of the lustrous, vital energy racing through my nerves ... my body was undergoing a process of purgation and rejuvenation side by side with some definite purpose entirely beyond my grasp." (page 149)
To Gopi Krishna, Kundalini is "an ever-present possibility, existing in all human beings by virtue of the evolutionary process still at work in the race ..." (page 226) and is but the next step in a continuing process that began with the dawn of life itself.
And here we have an insight into the future, not one of technological marvels, but of vastly expanded consciousness: "I am able on occasions to have a fleeting glimpse of the mighty, indescribable world to which I really belong, as a slender beam of light slanting into a dark room through a tiny hole does not belong to the room which it illuminates, but to the effulgent Sun millions and millions of miles away." (page 232 - 233)
As the Sufis say "we are angels in embryo." It is utterly beyond our comprehension just how powerful is our destiny.
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