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Relating to the crises that still haunt the world today, Gopi Krishna made it clear that one of the main reasons the earth teeters on the brink of environmental and nuclear destruction was that the masculine and feminine are so out of balance.

Of course, he was not referring here to traits held by " men " as opposed to those held by " women " but rather those characteristics associated with the masculine and feminine principles we all hold within ourselves.

Within this context, he made a forceful argument, showing how, particularly in the last two centuries in the western world, the glorification of the ideals traditionally associated with the masculine-reason, logic, power, strength, victory, territorialism-and the denigration of those related to the feminine-emotion, intuition, nurturing-had led to the proliferation of arms, the development of agents of mass destruction, the spread of war and terrorism and the systematic rape of the environment.

It is not surprising that Gopi Krishna had such a keen understanding of the importance of the feminine side of our natures.

Kundalini, the cosmic force that was so active in his body is seen in the yogic tradition as feminine.

Known also as kundalini-shakti, kundalini is said to operate in the microcosm of the human body in ways that parallel the way Shakti-the divine feminine principle and partner of the divine masculine principle, Shiva-operates in the macrocosm that is our Universe.