Kindly listen with attention to the yoga of the new age. Man has already outgrown his material philosophy, and is beginning to think that he is much more than what is known and what is seen. We have also understood that this present state of mind is not the ultimate state of mind. We can transform and transmute this present state of mind to any extent, to any degree. This mind is not the true mind. This mind is a combination, a collaboration of consciousness and the sensory impressions. It is very limited. If you cut off the sensory communications, the mind will be paralyzed. Isolate the mind, and see what happens.
If, however, you can develop the mind behind the mind, then you can never isolate it. In the science of kundalini yoga, this mind is replaced by a greater mind, because this mind cannot serve our life’s purpose any more. It has awful limitations. Despite everything that we have, this mind still feels unhappy. Even if you give it everything, it will never be satisfied.
The higher mind is known as the ‘super-mind’, or otherwise the ‘spiritual Self’ and it has to be awakened with the practices of kriya yoga. Of all the sciences known to us, kriya yoga is the most powerful practice for the awakening of kundalini. The location of kundalini is at the base of the spinal column. You practise pranayama and direct the force into the spinal column which in turn influences the consciousness of man. This awakening of kundalini may put us in touch with other dimensions.
Then one is not just a man, but becomes the man behind the man, and the mind behind the mind. The purpose of human existence is to discover and awaken that. You can be sure of one thing that when you are able to develop the higher consciousness in you, you will experience a completely different version of life and creation, and you will no longer be an ordinary human being.
What has been presented here is only a glimpse. This science is accessible to those who practise it. Even if you practise a little, it will help you a lot. It does not take hours, it takes minutes. If you can devote just ten minutes a day of your precious life, you will realize, in time to come, that you have made a very worthwhile investment.
30 April 1980, Dionyssios Areopagitis Hall,