2. Evolution, John White Interviews Gopi Krishna
Another stimulating discussion with the philosopher sage
Gopi Krishna.
Gopi Krishna, considered by many to be the world's foremost expert on yoga and kundalini, was born in
Kashmir in 1903.
Gopi Krishna is one in a long line of gurus and saints who achieved partial or full enlightenment, such as
Ramakrishna,
Buddha, Christ,
Mohammed,
Moses,
Guru Nanak,
Shankara,
Lao Tzu and many others, some who are known to history and some not.
The remarkable thing in Gopi Krishna's case, is that he was a scientifically well informed man who wrote a detailed account of his life story and dramatic kundalini awakening which first occurred in
1937 and stabilized roughly 12 years later into a full state of perennial enlightenment in around 1949.
In this privileged state, he spent the next 35 years, until his departure from the earthly plane in
1984. During this long enlightened period, he wrote more than 15 books, and toured the world talking to and lecturing to groups of scientists, yoga devotees and the general public with his yoga based scientific explanation of the phenomena of evolution, religion and genius, based on his unique understanding and personal experience of a full kundalini awakening.
His first major work was "The Biological
Basis of
Religion and
Genius" with an introduction by the esteemed
German scientist
Professor Carl Friedrich Von Weiszacker. In this relative short but momentous revelatory work he explains how his knowledge and experience of the biological mechanism in the body known to yoga philosophy as kundalini is the true cause of evolution, thus overturning the theories of the Darwinian Evolutionists, who have in his view by their misunderstanding of the true evolutionary process brought both religion and mysticism into disrepute, thus leading us into what he calls "the present crisis", in which we are witnessing the breakdown of morality, law and order, and a progressive disintegration into war, terrorism, and global disaster.
According to Gopi Krishna, this disaster can be averted through a scientific understanding of the evolutionary mechanism in the body known as kundalini, and a consequent return to moral standards - though not necessarily those of a prurient, puritanical nature - which are in harmony with our current stage of evolutionary development, and pre-requisite for us taking the next step of the evolutionary ladder, into what he describes as "a fairytale like kingdom of light, beauty, intelligence and bliss."
The reader is warned firstly, that Gopi Krishna's works are detailed and complex, and his message cannot be absorbed fully without a serious and protracted study, and secondly that he never advised anybody to awaken kundalini without the guidance of a true master, which he felt at this time was not generally possible to find, even in
India, long considered the true home of yoga.
However, his general message can be understood by all, and explains the appearance of geniuses, prophets, and the ongoing evolutionary progress of mankind, and gives what appears to be the only logical explanation of how we arrived at our "present crisis" and advice of what we must all do next in order not only to evolve and prosper, but in fact, merely to survive.