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    The Way to Self-Knowledge
    The Way to Self-Knowledge
    The Way to Self-Knowledge
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    The Way to Self-Knowledge

    By Gopi Krishna

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    This easy-to-read book of verse, the last work written by Gopi Krishna, is an unparalleled wonder of revelation. Com¬posed in only a few short weeks, it contains the essence of the basic teachings of all religions. For the individual seeking to know more about their own self and the riddle of existence, it is a modern-day book of instructions. It describes in detail the way of life essential for real spiritual development and the obstacles that stand in the way of the proper evolution of the race. The book presents a view of the enlightened society of the future and the true destiny of mankind in this well-planned creation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInstitute for Consciousness Research
    Release dateSep 13, 2013
    ISBN9780992108205
    The Way to Self-Knowledge
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    Gopi Krishna

    Gopi Krishna was born in 1903 to parents of Kashmiri Brahmin extraction. His birthplace was a small village about twenty miles from the city of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Jammu and Kashmir State in northern India. He spent the first eleven years of his life growing up in this beautiful Himalayan valley.In 1914, his family moved to the city of Lahore in the Punjab which, at that time, was a part of British India. Gopi Krishna passed the next nine years completing his public school education. Illness forced him to leave the torrid plains of the Punjab and he returned to the cooler climate of the Kashmir Valley. During the succeeding years, he secured a post in the Public Works Department of the state, married and raised a family.In 1946 he founded a social organization and with the help of a few friends tried to bring about reforms in some of the outmoded customs of his people. Their goals included the abolition of the dowry system, which subjected the families of brides to severe and even ruinous financial obligations, and the strictures against the remarriage of widows. After a few years, Gopi Krishna was granted premature retirement from his position in the government and devoted himself almost exclusively to service work in the community.In 1967, he published his first major book in India: Kundalini — The Evolutionary Energy in Man. Shortly thereafter it was published in Great Britain and the United States and has since appeared in eleven major languages. The book presented to the Western world for the first time a clear and concise autobiographical account of the phenomenon of the awakening of Kundalini, which he had experienced in 1937. This work, and the sixteen other published books by Gopi Krishna have generated a steadily growing interest in the subjects of consciousness and the evolution of the brain. He also traveled extensively in Europe and North America, energetically presenting his theories to scientists, scholars, researchers and others.Gopi Krishna’s experiences led him to hypothesize that there is a biological mechanism in the human body which is responsible for creativity, genius, psychic abilities, religious and mystical experiences, as well as some aberrant mental states. He asserted that ignorance of the working of this evolutionary mechanism was the main reason for the present dangerous state of world affairs. He called for a full scientific investigation of his hypothesis and believed that such an objective analysis would uncover the secrets of human evolution. It is this knowledge, he believed, that would give mankind the means to progress in peace and harmony.Gopi Krishna passed away in July 1984 of a severe lung infection and is survived by his three children and seven grandchildren. The work that he began is currently being carried forward through the efforts of a number of affiliated foundations, organizations and individuals around the world.

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    The Way to Self-Knowledge - Gopi Krishna

    The Way to Self-Knowledge

    by

    Gopi Krishna

    Published by:

    The Institute for Consciousness Research

    and

    The Kundalini Research Foundation, Ltd.

    Smashwords Edition

    The Way to Self-Knowledge

    Copyright © 1984 Gopi Krishna

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    First published in 1985 by:

    F.I.N.D. Research Trust, Canada

    Second printing 1987

    Third printing 2001

    Published by:

    The Institute for Consciousness Research

    165 Valley Crescent,

    RR #4, Markdale ON,

    Canada N0C 1H0

    The Kundalini Research Foundation, Ltd.

    86 Wallacks Drive

    Stamford CT

    06902 U.S.A.

    Fourth Institute for Consciousness Research edition

    Third Kundalini Research Foundation, Ltd. Edition

    International Standards Book Number: 978-0-9921082-0-5

    Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 87-80870

    Cover art courtesy of Leonard Seeds

    Table of Contents

    Dedication

    About This Book

    Preface

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Chapter 6

    Chapter 7

    Chapter 8

    Chapter 9

    Chapter 10

    Chapter 11

    Chapter 12

    Chapter 13

    Chapter 14

    Chapter 15

    About the Author

    Other Books by Gopi Krishna

    Dedication

    To the memory of my parents, to my wife

    For all the tender care and pains they took

    To equip me for the transcendental life,

    In gratitude I dedicate this book.

    The Mighty Power ere She recast my mind

    Had willed for me, to Her intention true,

    A noble father and a mother kind

    To whom most of what I possess is due.

    Nor could I have a more devoted wife,

    Than her in sickness nor an abler nurse

    Nor consort more alert in danger rife,

    Or more resourceful with an empty purse.

    My mother and my spouse, as if decreed

    To pass a life devoid of ease and mirth,

    Renounced their pleasure and forewent their need

    To soften the agony of my rebirth.

    They served as the wings on which I flew

    To realms unfolded by the holy Flame;

    Two humble heroines, who never knew

    Their greatness, acting nobly all the same.

    I had access to blissful moods despite

    The awful journey and the perilous road;

    But all along without the least respite

    The two went saddled with a heavy load.

    They sweat to render smooth the path I trod

    With no thought of a trophy to be won,

    What metal is a woman’s heart O God

    To suffer martyrdom for man — her son.

    About This Book

    1. This metaphysical treatise, in verse, is the work of a Super-genius. The mortal author of the book makes it plain that the work is a mandatory production, written under the inspiration of a supernal intelligence, not in a trance or semi-trance state, but in complete wakefulness, at a speed not possible for a diction in poetry. Except the scriptures of the various faiths, there is no book comparable to it in the whole literature of mankind. It is a unique composition in English, the most widely spoken language of the earth.

    2. The book itself is the confirmation of a rare phenomenon encountered in history during the last, at least, 5000 years — a phenomenon on which the current faiths of mankind are based, that is Revelation or the direct communication of Perennial Wisdom, through a mortal brain, by a Superhuman Source of Knowledge, for guidance at a critical period of time.

    3. The work contains the essence of the basic teaching of all religions, suited to the present needs and capable of universal application at this time.

    4. The prophetic vision of the future, presented in this work, is entirely unique. There is no other thinker or scholar who has presented the same picture before, with such precision and detail; no philosopher who has envisioned the future of the human race on the same lines, as graphically painted in this work.

    5. The book explains, for the first time, the rationale of religion, both past and present. Religious experience and the disciplines advocated for it, it says, signify the operation of a budding faculty in the human brain over and above the intellect, designed by nature to extend the experiential area of human perception to include — what is beyond our knowledge at present — the province of the mind and soul.

    6. The idea that the human species is in a state of transition to produce a super-race has been mooted before. But the mechanism for this evolution and the kind of cooperation on the part of the individual necessary to allow this transformation to proceed unimpeded have never been discussed in such detail or even suspected in such clear terms by any thinker either present or past.

    7. The book is packed with illuminating material for the average individual in search of light on the problem of existence, or with a burning thirst to know more about himself and his position in the universe.

    8. The volume makes it clear that Reason alone is hopelessly inadequate to solve the mystery of existence, that the present critical condition of the earth is the direct outcome of the absolute reliance placed on it, during recent times, and that there are planes and levels of creation, completely beyond the reach of the normal mind, which influence human destiny at all times.

    9. This explains why prophets, seers and sages, who have been allotted such a high position in the religious history of mankind, are as indispensable a limb of the human society as scientists, scholars, artists, healers, and the like, and have even a more important role to perform. They serve as channels of communication with the supra-rational planes of creation, entirely beyond the intellect.

    10. The

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