INTERVIEW WITH GOPI KRISHNA
BY CLAES NOBEL
TALK ABOUT
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
INTERVIEW WITH GOPI KRISHNA
BY CLAES NOBEL
TALK ABOUT
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
Do you think that our religions will accept this idea? Will they allow science to work hand in hand with religion to carry out the kind of evolutionary or spiritual research you are calling for?
There is no question of their not accepting, or not believing in, what I say. They should not accept a single word of what I am writing as truth but leaveit open to experimentation. Just make the experiments on the evolutionary mechanism, Kundalini, which is a historical fact. It is a hidden doctrine mentioned in all the esoteric systems of the past. I say they should make experiments on it in a certain way. If they succeed, if they find that I am right, then give the widest possible publicity to it.
What I have said in my writings is that no great illuminated sage had a conversation with God or communion with God. He reached only a higher dimension of consciousness. Man is destined for that same higher dimension of consciousness. There is a special psychosomatic mechanism in his body which Nature has provided for him to accelerate and rise higher and higher into this higher dimension.The prophets, illuminated sages, geniuses, the inspired poets, and the people with miraculous or psychic gifts, have all been the products ofthis psychosomatic mechanism, which is slowly transforming the human brain.
I say that we can achieve this transformation in one life. When these things are proved,then all the hidden secrets of religion will stand revealed, why Christwas inspired, why Mohammed was inspired, why Guru Nanak was inspired, why they had miraculous powers. And such eloquence that they could fascinateand convert everyone who came into their influence or their orbit. It is because of this power center. Once you establish it, at once there willbe harmony in all the religions, because the Divine Source of revelation will then be known.
In ourday and age, science and technology have become our God. Having scienceverify the truths of religion, therefore, seems like a valid goal.
Please understand me clearly, Mr. Nobel. I would repeat this with my last breath. The source of revelation, inspiration, genius, psychic powers lies in us. This source can become active with certain disciplines. Normally it is dormant and idle. We don't use it, but with certain experiments, this source, this fountainhead of all spiritual knowledge and powers, can become active.And it did become active in all the great prophets, sages and geniuses of the past.
The research that I am asking for will place in the hands of science the secret of genius,the secret of that Source from which science was born, from which philosophy, literature, genius, music, from which all was born. The research will put science in touch with the Source of all creativity, all nobility, and all the psychic powers in man.
That'sa profound statement.
As I said,I would be happy to make it even in my last breath. The human race is evolving in a certain predetermined direction, under a certain law, which of course, it would need a long span of time to understand thoroughly. Now if this evolution continues in a healthy way, we progress. If this evolution doesnot continue in a healthy way we stagnate, degenerate and deteriorate.
There is also another danger. If this evolution does not occur in a healthy way,then it can occur in a morbid or malignant way. That is the reason why,in this advanced age, with all the facilities and amenities that we have, the number of mentally distorted, or the insane, is so alarming, especially in the Western countries.
Thereis no reason why a nation that has everything that it needs, plenty and abundance of everything, food, provisions, shelter, sanitation, everything. Why then should there be such a large incidence of insanity? The reasonis because the brain's accelerated evolution is going the wrong way.
DearMr. Nobel, all this will be confirmed by the progeny, that our most intelligent minds have started to lose touch with reality. They have started to become alienated. Otherwise, no sane human being who is intelligent, well educated, has knowledge of all the branches to which man has gained access to this day, who has books, newspapers, television and the radio to give him news about the world, should devise a weapon like the nuclear missile, a weapon that puts the whole species in danger of annihilation.
It is insanity. We are not able to see it at this point but we will see it after20 or 25 years. It is craziness, because the human intellect has started to deteriorate. The Romans, Greeks, Indians, Mughuls all fell because their leading intellects deteriorated. The same is happening to the Western nations. The mind is losing contact with reality.
Do you today see any similarity between the fall of the Roman empire and the possiblefall of our Western capitalistic system?
The same reason. You can see a striking resemblance between the ways of life of the last Romans and Western society of our day. The same overemphasis on carnal pleasures. The same dissension among themselves. The same appetite for abnormal things. You will find parallels between the two, the same breakup of families, the same lowering of moral and ethical values.
I want to come back again to the mind, because it fascinates me very much. We know a lot about the health and diseases of the body, and we cure them. In America there is the great body cult. We exercise, jog, play tennis and golf for hours. Our physical stamina is excellent, but we give little time to the development of our mind. There is an imbalance.
It is a great imbalance. Even if we were to exercise for hours every day, for the betterment of our body, and at the same time neglect the culture of the mind, we would gain nothing by all the labor. For the pilot, the driver in us,the power that is behind all our thinking and action, would act in the wrong way. And the body will be misused when the driver is not healthy and wholesome.
Now Iwill give you one more instance to show how the mind works. Please try to frame a picture of New York, London, or Zurich, and see the cars, trucks and buses whirling around and around. See the people rushing across roads, burning enormous quantities of energy.
Why this haste? Is the earth turning upside down? Is some other species threatening mankind from a distant planet? Is there a plague? What is happening? Why is everybody running and rushing and working, without giving any time to allow the mind to be in repose and in peace, in tune with itself? What is happening inall the cities, especially in the industrial countries, and now in the developing countries also? Speed, speed, and work and work. For what?
I agree, people rush about without smiles on their faces.
You will find laborers and farmers smiling and laughing in their fields and workplaces. But you don't find people laughing or smiling in the large cities of the world. They are working and rushing this way and that. Now let us carry this analogy a little further. Let us take a growing infant, tie him with a rope and whirl him around the head. Or put him in a small chair which is whirling for the whole day, so that he has no time to look at anything in a patient way, in a steady way. He is always whirling. Do you think such a child will grow into a normal adult?
Definitelynot.
Then how canyou imagine that all these crowds, from morning till night, who are burning this energy, burning their own energy in such a rush and tumble, with a craze for speed, with a mania for more and more, with an abnormal desire for pleasure, for excitement and adventure, how can you say that this mind will grow into healthy adulthood or into a healthy humanity?
This is the reason why a nuclear war is threatening mankind. To end all of this insanity, this riot of the intellect, of speed and creativity. See howcalm and reposeful Nature is and how restless is man. And not only man but intelligent man, because he has no idea that a glorious future awaitshim. He doesn't know that he has to evolve in a certain direction, thathe has to reach a dimension where he will combine the scientist, the sage and the illuminated in himself. He has no idea that he is destined to livea life of happiness, peace and glory on the earth.
For him, the ideal is this whirling around, going in a jet plane, rushing from Bombay to London, from London to New York; and then when he gets there, rushing in a car, this way and that, spreading smoke and pollution everywhere.
The people who are doing it are acting with the best of intentions. I myself do it by rushing to meetings here and there.
I agree with you that they are well-meaning. They are merely following the current way. But this way is built on ignorance of the spiritual law and the evolution of the human brain and mind. So they are not to be blamed. It is the system that is to be blamed. And the system is based on ignorance. That is why my voice is lonely.
But it will be confirmed that man has not to live only for his body but for his soul also. And the soul needs self-reflection, repose, meditation, calmness, nobility, and those characteristics, those traits, which were once common among the spiritual teachers of the earth. So every one of us must also give some time for the culture of our mind. And that means retirement to secluded locations, prayer, worship, creative occupations, music, and just sitting in beautiful places, or among things which have an aesthetic value,which fascinate the mind, which make it grow, which make it expand beyond the narrow limits which are forced on it by our material existence.
It is very hard to tell another nation that we have gone in the wrong directionand that it should not follow our lead. We all have to learn by our own mistakes. How can we tell developing countries that to develop their societies and economies as Europe and America have is not the right way?
In the firstplace, one of the consequences of this type of life has been the two great world wars. Secondly, if there were real peace and happiness in this typeof life, this hectic race after material possessions, then why should millions of people take to drugs, to meditation, to living simple lives, to building communities where they are away from this rush and bustle? Out of the remaining millions, or out of the whole, why should maybe ten percent go crazy?
When we calculate the crazy, the dropouts, the drug addicts, those who meditate, those wholeave for secluded places, if we count them all together, we will find that only a small fraction is left that is happy with this type of life.The rest are not happy at all. We should take a lesson from this.
Add to what you have said the possibility that we may run out of energy, and we have another serious problem. But even if we had more energy available today, would it really be good for us?
Why should we, all of a sudden, take it into our heads that everyone of us is permitted to spend as much energy as would suffice for perhaps a hundred other people? The fact is, Mr. Nobel, that we are not planning; we are not doing anything by plan that keeps in view our evolution, the resources of the earth, the needs that we have and the economy of nature. We are doing everything haphazardly. Nations are doing it out of rivalry and competition. There is nothing likea planned economy anywhere on earth.
Duringthe last hundred years we have consumed so much energy and so much of there sources of the planet that, if frugally employed, could have lasted perhapsa thousand years. If we were to continue the same extravagance and extend it to the developing countries, to all the four billion people, there willbe nothing left in the next fifty years. So all this is just haphazard thinking and wrong planning, without any idea about survival.
We have to live a frugal life, just as nature is frugal, parsimonious. A frugal life is good for our health, both inner and outer. Any new source of energy,even if discovered or developed, would not solve our problems. It would just add to them.
The present population trend indicates that around the year 2000 we will have a world population of some six or seven billion. If our problems are difficult to solve today, we can only imagine how they will be with that many people.
In calculating the needs of the population, we do not take into consideration that the human brain is evolving and that each individual needs more than we assign to her or him. Therefore, if the earth can sustain a population of, say, four billion people, then when the factor of evolution is added, it would only be able to sustain three billion or even two billion. Each individual should have something more for his evolutionary processes than what would otherwise be needed in the normal way. This is not understood anywhere.
We should have a population for which we have sufficient out of all that is produced by the earth. This can only be possible when the needs of the population and the planning done for it are on a global basis. What would be needed are men and women who are cultivated, trained, and who have reached too ther dimensions of consciousness, in charge of important offices. That is the only way to safety. Otherwise, under stress, a normal mind will give way in the present complex societies of the world.
Thankyou very much.
Written by: Gopi Krishna
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