
Gopi Krishna (yogi)
Gopi Krishna was an Indian yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer. He was one of the first to popularise the concept of kundalini among Western readers. His autobiography Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, which presented his personal account of the phenomenon of his awakening of kundalini,, was published in Great Britain and the United States and has since appeared in eleven major languages.
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"This is my experience, that the human brain is still organically evolving in the direction of the great mystics, in the same direction as the great geniuses. For this evolution a certain type of life …"
"And every year a golden crop, Of these Immortals will arise To help safely to the top, The savants who train for the prize."
"The word yoga is met for the first time in Vedas in the Katha Upanishad and some description of it is contained in Svetasvatra, the last of the early Upanishads. It is more frequently met with in Pura…"
"But to act on the rules enjoined, For Man to be a Super-man. These rules no mortal brain has coined, But form a part of Heaven's Plan."
"At this moment mankind is unsafe in the hands of present-day politicians. Considering the progress she has made in physical science and technological skill, it is imperative that superconscious minds …"
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