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have to start cooperating with the process. That is what yoga is all about.
There are many forms of research taking place in yoga today, having to do with yoga therapies, with healing. They are marvellous work, but they just represent the branches of the tree of kundalini. This research that we are talking about focuses on the roots of the tree. It focuses on its highest expression, which is genius and transcendence. There is no doubt in my mind, that this is the appointed hour for this sacred knowledge to be revealed.
Once spiritual laws are known, materialistic science will have to act as a unifying principle among all mankind, to bring the goal of evolution before humanity, in a context that it will comprehend. This is very profound yet very simple; it is only man's arrogance that stands in the way. We believe that we have already reached the pinnacle, but we have not even scratched the surface of our potential that Swami Vivekananda spoke about constantly.
This kundalini research is designed to represent the spiritual heritage of India. It is not going to be dominated by any one school, philosophy, or teacher. It is open to all to participate. It is an experiment. We refer to it as the Kundalini Project, but this is to represent the great spiritual heritage of India. When this research is proven, Indians will wake up to the great glory and grandeur of their land. Right now there is decay and decadence here, like there is in any other place in the world. But someone said recently at another conference, "You scratch the skin of an Indian, and there is a yogi underneath".
The spiritual heritage is here, and India is the soul of this project. The reason that we are not pursuing it in the west at this time is that India has scientists equivalent to any in the world. There may not be as many, but they are as good. You have a priceless documentary treasure of authentic material about this experience here, much of which has not been translated, and you have yogis unparallelled by any in the world. Western science is still not ready to accept that prana is the agent behind every chemical and biochemical change that takes place in the body. It is too far removed from their heritage. But in India a number of the most eminent scientists are receptive to the concept that prana is the agent that creates
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