--More Kundalini experiences of Gopi Krishna at http://scienceandreligion.com/gk/kundalini_gk.htm
- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > from http://www.ecomall.com > > GOPI KRISHNA - THE LAST INTERVIEW (Free Video) > > TK: Mr Krishna, you have had a Kundalini experience. I wish you could > explain what a Kundalini experience is and what its ramifications are. > > GK: Before I start to describe my own experience, perhaps it would be > better to give a little detail about what Kundalini means. We are not > using the totality of the human brain. According to various > estimates, most of us use only ten percent of the brain and according > to some only eight percent. That means 90 percent of the brain is > unutilized, that there is still a large margin in the brain which > could be used for other purposes, and nature has provided it for > certain purposes which are not yet known to science. According to > Indian tradition, there is a region in the brain below the crown and > about the pallette which is called Brahmarendra or the cavity of > Brahman. This region can be activated by certain disciplines and when > activated it can give to the individual the same vision of the > universe which all great mystics of the Earth have described. When it > is awakened the normal energy of the body or the blood is not able to > fuel the center. It needs a more powerful and constrained psychic > fuel. This fuel comes from the reproductive system, which is > transformed into a kind of radiation and that radiation awakens and > makes the center function. > > In my case, the awakening occurred at the age of 34, in 1937. I had > been meditating for 17 years and then all of a sudden during > Christmas, while I was sitting cross-legged in a state of meditation, > a strange thing happened. Something exploded in my brain and a > current of silvery light rising from my spine radiated throughout my > whole brain, and I felt myself expanding in all directions. This > expansion was so incredible, so amazing that I thought that something > unusual had happened in my inner ear. After this I had two other > experiences of the same kind, at short intervals apart, and it then > succeeded. > > But something was changing in me and I could perceive this change for > many, many years, day and night. In fact, I passed through grave > crises during that period. Finally, I became stabilized in that > condition of consciousness in my 49th year. Since that time I have > been living in that condition. That is to say, before my 34th year I > was living in this world thinking, seeing, perceiving in the same way > as other people do, but since my 49th year I have been living in two > different worlds. One is the normal world of senses and reason, and > the other is the world which is much higher, much more happy and > which is totally apart from anything that we can know of the earth. > It is the world of consciousness. > > TK: How do you see the world? > > GK: We know what all people perceive of this world. I can understand > what you perceive of it, you can understand what I perceive of it. > That is, this perception is uniform. Everyone has the same > perception. But this other perception is different. In this other > perception you do not see the world as a solid, real, objective > creation. The real objective creation is consciousness. You see > consciousness everywhere. You see the ocean as if it is consciousness > everywhere. You see the ocean as if it is living; you see a mountain > as if it is living; you see the sky as if it is living; you see the > Earth as if it is living; you see life or consciousness everywhere. > And this life or consciousness is not something which is really dead > or which is something you can understand. It is unfathomable. It is > wonder and everytime you see it, you perceive it. The wonder grows > deeper. I am never tired of sitting in quiet and reflecting on > myself. I am never tired of looking at the sky. The sky, to me, does > not appear as it appeared before my 34th year; it is so fascinating. > It is such a beautiful vision that I would like to look at it for > days and months on end. In other words, in the air a fountain of > happiness, a new kingdom, I should say, is opened. This is probably > what Christ meant when he said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within > you." This is the Nirvana of Buddha; and this is the state of Vada > mentioned by the Suffi mystics. In fact, in this inactive state what > we perceive is consciousness in its most magic form, in its glorious > form, and not consciousness as a point looking through the eyes or > hearing through the ears, but a consciousness which has its own > channels and which knows that it is the master and not the slave of > the material forces which knows it is the creator. It is infinite: it > is deathless. In this state one feels himself to be a king, he feels > himself to be the master of what he sees. It is not the ego. I should > say it is not the ego; it is the very condition of this > consciousness. That is the reason why it is said that no mystic would > change his state even for a kingdom. It is somehing so unique, so > glorious, so elevating that I have no words to describe this state. >
