You have to rise above the gravitational force of materialism which is today's religion everywhere, whatever they may call it. Whether it is communism or capitalism or democracy or demonocracy, whether it is Christianity, Hinduism, Islam or any other nonsense, all of that is nothing but materialism in all its absurd forms. Kundalini is the only thing that can take you, like the stalk of the lotus, out of this mud of materialism. (6.07.1986)