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Early in 1992, I was immediately led to the Bihar School of Yoga. I had never heard of it before. Even though I had been to India four or five times with Gopi Krishna when he was alive and several times after he passed away, I had led a sort of cloistered life and I did not really look into many of the institutions in India. Upon my arrival here at the Bihar School of Yoga, I sat with Paramahamsa Niranjanananda and outlined the intentions of our research.
I was amazed that Paramahamsa Niranjanananda absolutely accepted everything I had to say. He was the first person that I had met in India who did so totally. He not only accepted it, he comprehended it, complimented it and immediately indicated that this was why the Bihar School of Yoga was formed. This was the highest intention of the School, to basically, scientifically, validate the purpose of life, the purpose of existence, which I did not know.
Paramahamsa Satyananda həd talked about and written about this in great detail, but I had never studied any of his books at that time. So Paramahamsa Niranjanananda invited me to make my home here, to do the research here. I had explained to him that we were looking for a climate that was neither too hot in the summer nor too cold in the winter to conduct these experiments. Then I said to him, "Now if you can change the weather, I would really be interested." And obviously he is still working on that!
I immediately went from here to the Vivekananda Kendra Research Foundation in Bangalore, and Dr. Nagendra gave me the same invitation. He was equally receptive to the hypothesis that we were postulating about the awakening of kundalini. So I took up residence in Bangalore about six months later, and I have been operating out of there.
We formed an organizing committee of the Bihar School of Yoga, the Vivekananda Kendra Research Foundation and our Kundalini Research Association International, for the purpose of formulating plans for this research. To date we have not done much about it, mainly because I have been on a public relations tour of India, speaking and promoting the concept to many many people and I rarely stop travelling. Early next year I plan to be here in January for several weeks when the intention is to formulate an organizational plan for the research that will take place in 1995. That is our target date.
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