In the past, to reach this state of consciousness, it was necessary to follow a whole series of practices to get rid of the attachments to the body, the emotional and the mental which lead us into the illusion of the relative world in which we live. Isolation from the world was the way to avoid all temptations to get carried away by these movements of the mind. The purpose of these practices, allowed some rare individuals to achieve liberation or Moksha in Sanskrit. That is to say the union of the individual Self (Atman) with the absolute Self (Paramatman) or otherwise called “Realization of the Self”.
This experience occurred when the practitioner, once completely and definitively purified, surrendered to the awakening of an energy called Kundalini, which resides coiled 3 and a half times in the sacrum bone. This energy is a reflection of the primordial Mother within us. She is our spiritual Mother who gives the second birth, the birth of the Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit described by Christ. By this awakening, the individual lost all false identification and became one with the Self.
With the advent of Sahaja Yoga it has become possible to awaken some filaments of this energy and to begin this path of purification from this awakening. Meditation thus becomes the way to let the Kundalini do this inner work of rebalancing and cleansing. It is an intelligent, loving, purifying, regenerating energy that brings us into a new state of consciousness, called thoughtless consciousness, where the Self can gradually manifest itself to our consciousness.