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APPENDIX 3<br />

HAUER’S ENGLISH LECTURE<br />

8October 1932<br />

Professor Hauer: Would you like to ask any questions about yesterday’s<br />

discussion?<br />

Dr. Shaw: May I say that it seems to me that if we can only awaken the<br />

Kundalini when we get to the beginning of the sixth stage on the road<br />

through the cakras, 1 where we are not able to see her, that we would be<br />

as far out of reality as the East. We should have something simpler, a<br />

mixture of earth.<br />

Professor Hauer: As I told you, my conception rests upon the classical<br />

text of the ûa°-cakra-nirÖpaõa and on a number of the Upanishads, where<br />

it is quite clear to me that the full awakening can take place only after<br />

the yogin has gotten to the end of viçuddha—he must be purified,<br />

cleansed—and to the beginning of vjñv, the stage where the great intuitions<br />

appear.<br />

I said yesterday that it was a hypothesis. You must work on it not with<br />

the help of Avalon or the modern Indian writers but from the original<br />

texts which give us the historical development of perhaps a thousand<br />

years. Most of our writings now are of a very late date, and the original<br />

meaning is concealed. In the course of the historical evolution all sorts<br />

of things have accrued and been superimposed on the original. My<br />

intention is to get at the original always because I am sure that is nearer<br />

to us than the yoga evolved in India as it fares now, or a hundred years<br />

ago.<br />

It is the same with the classical yoga. I have to take it out of the yoga<br />

1 Hauer had stated: “As to the question when it [Kundalini] is to be awakened, I think the<br />

texts have been misunderstood by the commentators not only in the West but also in the<br />

East. They all speak as if she could be awakened at any time from the beginning onward.<br />

But that is not so. Kundalini can be awakened only after the yogin has mastered all the<br />

limbs of yoga up to samvdhi, the eight limb or step of yoga. Only after he has finished the<br />

whole course, and has achieved all the changes within that are to be worked by yoga, only<br />

then can he awaken Kundalini” (HS, 96).<br />

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