HOW INTELLIGENCE, LOVE & BLISS OF SAMADHI CAN SAVE THE WORLD

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HOW INTELLIGENCE, LOVE & BLISS OF SAMADHI CAN SAVE THE WORLD

BEYOND THE HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS BY GOPI KRISHNA

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http://www.salvationscience.com/v224.htm

 

WORLD PEACE MUST ORIGINATE AS PEACE WITHIN YOU

 

I have long enjoyed the teachings of Gopi Krishna of The Kundalini Research

Institute in Dehra Dun, India. In our minds, there is a subtle blending of the

inner and the outer, so that there is no real separation between the two. Almost

all of the events of recorded history originated in the minds and hearts of

people.

 

The disciple John, said: " God is love. " Eastern philosophers, unlike their less

wise western couterparts, viewed God subjectively as an experience, intead of as

the idolatrous worship of outer names, forms, or rituals. Such " theatrical

props " are mere cover-ups for a lack of faith and Gnosis. Get real!

 

The wise talk less about God, but experience it more than those who don't have

the Gnosis of God or Christ as a state of the human condition. As a personal

experience, God is not found outside us, but within us. This Higher

Consciousness has several attributes, such as: health, happiness, bliss,

intelligence and love.

 

We give of ourselves to others. If you are miserable, you are going to say or do

something which is going to make your neighbor miserable. If you are in a state

of Nirvana, you will somehow impart to others the bliss you have within. Love is

the outer manifestation of Inner Bliss. Selfish people are always miserable.

 

From the inner experience of Bliss, arises the outer expression of love for

others. Bliss and kindness are but " two sides of the same coin " . One is an inner

mental-emotional experience, and the other is one's thoughts about others and

treatment of them. Convert others to the Way to Happiness, and they will treat

you well.

 

If you want to have a peaceful relationship with someone or some nation, both

you and those with whom you must deal, should have this Higher Consciousness of

God Within. Otherwise, you are just " whited sepulchers - clean on the outside -

but on the inside, filled with dead men's bones and all manner of corruption " ,

as Jesus said.

 

You won't be able to make peace with evil. Peace must first come from within.

Then you must give your inner peace to others, lest they somehow mistreat you in

some Frustration-Aggression Syndrome. Only love can bring peace between men and

nations. Outer states of peace must first come from within. Jai Om. - Sw.

Tantrasangha

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BEYOND THE HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS BY GOPI KRISHNA

 

Even with its nuclear arsenals and contamination of air, water and

earth, it is not science that has become destructive; it is the distortion

and vitiation of the human intellect that is responsible for the present

unsafe situation of the world.

 

Knowledge can be both constructive and destructive. The ultimate

arbiter is the human intellect. This is the reason why revelation has

always been a necessary instrument for the spiritual progress of the race.

 

Intellect, unable to see centuries or even only decades ahead, cannot

determine the evolutionary needs of mankind. It is liable to make serious

errors in calculation at any time.

 

Human life is so complex and the course of evolution so full of

bewildering situations that it is only a cosmic intelligence that can guide

it rightly to the destined goal. Can even a whole galaxy of the highest

intellects, in every branch of knowledge, make an accurate forecast of what

would be the state of mankind after the span of only the next quarter of a

century? Or even what changes will occur in the current concepts of

science, politics and religion?

 

If not, doesn't it plainly signify that the race is drifting toward an

indeterminable goal at the mercy of forces over which it has no control?

 

The error of science has been that it has entirely ignored the

spiritual side of man and devoted all its attention to the physical and

organic fields. The outcome is that mankind faces a threat of annihilation

on one side, or death with poisoned air, water and earth on the other, and

of mental distortion on the third.

 

On the political side, it has become a seething cauldron of

aggression, violence, lust for power and hate. On the spiritual and moral

side we see confusion rampant everywhere. There are as many ideas,

concepts, systems and doctrines as there are scholars or teachers

expounding them.

 

It is not surprising, therefore, that science has failed to create

that harmonious progress of mankind in the social, political and spiritual

fields.

 

Science today is suffering from the same distemper of mind which

affected faith during the period of her supremacy, namely dogmatism, vanity

and arrogance. It is amazing to what extent even scientists can be led

astray by vanity. They understand very well that all we know about the

visible cosmos is but a drop in the possible ocean of knowledge. Not a

year passes when they are not forced to revise their opinions about certain

issues.

 

But with all this uncertainty, most of them display a dogmatic

attitude toward mind and consciousness. It is chiefly because science has

been one-sided in this investigation--ignoring the spiritual side of

man--that it has failed to bring about that wholesome transformation in the

mental and moral sides as it has in the physical.

 

The neglect of the material side brought about the fall of the

once-highly honored sovereign faiths of mankind. In the same way, the

neglect of the spiritual side is now tending to undermine the position of

ascendancy gained by science.

 

In either case, it was the intellect that failed to assess the

position correctly and to err in over-emphasizing only one side of man and

neglecting the equally important other side.

 

Therefore, it is not science itself but the overweening vanity and

shortsightedness of savants and scholars--or, in other words, a faulty

intellect--that is responsible for the destructiveness of modern technology.

 

The first thing that should be done to bring about a harmonious

development of human beings and the eradication of present-day irrational

beliefs in the spiritual realm, is to embark on a scientific investigation

into consciousness.

 

There is a huge volume of literature available in both the East and

the West, describing methods for attaining the higher states of

consciousness and the nature of these higher states. A documentary

research into these volumes, followed by systematic experimentation, can, I

am sure, lead to an understanding of the biological relationship between

expanded states of consciousness and the brain.

 

When this is achieved, the next step would be to find the laws

underlying this relationship. Enough material would be available--when

this is done--to enable scholars and scientists to determine the path and

the goal of evolution designed for mankind. They would then be able to

understand the nature of the changes imperceptible occurring in the brain

and consciousness.

 

It is not only by experimentation on the methods leading to higher

states of consciousness, but also by the observation of the psychic forces

responsible for genius, mediumistic faculties and insanity that these

evolutionary processes can be understood.

 

The all-inclusive nature of sex energy has not yet been correctly

understood by psychologists. In fact, the very term reproductive, or sex

energy is a misnomer: Reproduction is but one of the aspects of the life

energy, of which the other theater of activity is the brain. The cephalic

activity is so slow and subtle as to be almost imperceptible. But it is

this activity that is the cause of genius, uncanny psychic powers and also

insanity.

 

Once this fact is empirically demonstrated, we come to a turning point

in our present concepts about mind and consciousness--even about matter and

the universe as a whole.

 

The first harvest of this change will be the beginning of a new

science dealing with subtle intelligent energies in the cosmos. When this

happens, the gigantic physical world--now dominating the whole mental

horizon of science--will be relegated to its proper position. It is but

the visible peak of an infinite creation, of which the unbounded major part

is sunk below the surface of the space-time ocean, forever hidden from the

sight of man.

 

It is only in higher states of consciousness that a fragment of the

submerged portion comes into view, causing a state of wonder and

exhilaration which is beyond description. It is only when the evolving

human organism and the cosmos are viewed in right perspective that the

appropriate ways of life and conduct, favorable for this transformation,

can be devised by science.

 

Try as we might, without a clear knowledge of the goal ahead, we can

by no exercise of the intellect determine the right pattern of life

essential for mankind on the evolutionary path: A united world, abolition

of war, demolition of armaments, disbandment of armies. An environment

more in harmony with nature. A life more natural and simple. Removal of

barriers between man and man, inculcation of altruistic and humanitarian

principles, moral education, social equality and universal brotherhood.

 

These are some of the basic factors that contribute to the harmonious

progress of mankind.

 

This may appear idealistic or even fantastic and impracticable to many

people. But the conclusion is unavoidable. At its present intellectual

stature, the alternatives facing the race are either self-caused

annihilation with dreadful agony for myriads, or knowledge of and obedience

to the laws of evolving consciousness.

 

*This article is from Gopi Krishna's book " Higher Consciousness " , published

by The Julian Press. The article appeared in the New York Times October 6,

1973.

 

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