WHAT IS HINDUISM?
a recognition of that Divine Awareness which is the
absolute or unsurpassable reality (‘Anuttara’) behind all
realities. The nature of this Divine Awareness (‘Shiva’) and
its immanent and autonomous creative power (‘Shakti’) was
hitherto most clearly recognised in the Tantric religious
philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism. Through The New Yoga
however, the profound wisdom of this local and little-
known historic tradition can now serve a much-needed
contemporary global purpose – that of resisting ‘The New
Atheism’ and the secular ‘Monotheism of Money’ that
dominate today’s world – along with the unquestioned
assumptions of the purely technological ‘Science’ that is its
new ‘religion. In this way The New Yoga can help bring an
end to the rising ocean of spiritual ignorance, and to the
grave ecological devastation, economic inequalities and
global mayhem that go with it. The New Yoga is a way of
accomplishing this world-transforming aim not through
Jihad, violence or war but through the supreme principle
and innate power of Awareness. It makes known again that
‘God’ which is not simply one being among others ‘with’
awareness, but is awareness – an unbounded awareness that
is the divine source of all beings, yet also immanent within
them all as their eternal and divine Self.