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Gopi
Krishna
(1908-1984, India)
Biography Excerpt:
In 1937, at the age of thirty-four, Gopi Krishna experience a powerful awakening of the kundalini (coiled spiritual energy resembling a serpent, emanating from the base of the spine). Employed as a government clerk at the time, he found the “radical alteration” of his nervous system bewildering and even horrifying. From the sensation of “a jet of molten copper” ascending his spine and dashed against his crown to brilliant showers of incandescent light to a variety of distortions of size and shape, Gopi Krishna enjoyed no respite. Utterly exhausted, his tortorous days gave way to even worse torment at night. Fearing for his sanity over the extended period of his kundalini awakening, Gopi Krishna ultimately attained permanent awakening.
Enlightenment Story Excerpt:
We walked leisurely, discussing our work,
when suddenly while crossing the Tawi Bridge
I felt a mood of deep absorption
settling upon me until I almost lost touch with my surroundings. I no longer
heard the voice of my companion; she seemed to have receded into the distance,
though walking by my side. Near me, in a blaze of brilliant light, I suddenly
felt what seemed to be a mighty conscious presence' sprung from nowhere,
encompassing me and overshadowing all the objects around, from which two
lines of a beautiful verse in Kashmiri poured out to float before my vision,
like luminous writing in the air, disappearing as suddenly as they had
come.
When
I came to myself, I found the girl looking at me in blank amazement, bewildered
by my
abrupt silence and the expression of utter
detachment on my face.