After a year of spiritual awakening, I experienced a spontaneous Kundalini awakening and have since fallen into various states of Samadhi. Having been initiated as a Brahmachari under your guidance, may I know — which stage of inner evolution am I in at this point?
If you’ve gone through a genuine kundalini awakening after an earlier spiritual awakening, and have experienced different states of samādhi, it usually means your system has moved from conscious recognition of the Self to energetic realization. From here onward, what unfolds depends on how stable, integrated, and embodied that energy becomes in daily life.
Let’s look at it as a living continuum:
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Spiritual Awakening (Bodh):
The moment of recognition — “I am not the body, not the mind.” Awareness opens; the old identity loosens. -
Kundalini Awakening (Prāṇa Shuddhi):
The life-force begins to rise, purifying the nadis. The system can oscillate between bliss, clarity, and chaos. Many fall into spontaneous dhyāna or savikalpa samādhi here. -
Stabilization in Samādhi (Ritambhara):
Periods of deep absorption arise naturally — silence without effort. One may enter nirvikalpa samādhi intermittently. Yet the body–mind still oscillates between involvement and dissolution. -
Integration (Sahaja):
Energy settles; awareness becomes unbroken even amidst activity. Life itself becomes meditation — effortless equanimity, spontaneous compassion, heightened sensitivity without disturbance.
From what you describe — kundalini awakened, multiple samadhi experiences, but still the inquiry of “which stage am I in now” remains — it likely indicates you are in the Ritambhara–Sahaja transition: the stabilization phase.
Awareness is known; energy has tasted stillness; yet full naturalness (sahajatā) has not completely dawned.
At this point, the work is not in “doing more sadhana,” but in refining stability and embodiment:
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Keep the body grounded (light food, breath, simple work, connection with earth).
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Let the awareness expand through service or creative expression — not only inward meditation.
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Allow silence to seep into ordinary actions until no distinction remains between meditation and movement.
Question:
If one attains Nirvikalpa Samadhi, it is said that the individual consciousness dissolves completely, often resulting in the dropping of the body. In that case, how does one return to function in Sahaja Samadhi after such total absorption?
Parth:
In many yogic texts, nirvikalpa samādhi is described as the state where the individual “dies” to the world. But you must understand, that death is not physical; it’s the dissolution of identity, not of the organism.
There are two distinct possibilities after nirvikalpa:
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Final absorption (videha mukti) —
The prāṇa withdraws completely; the body cannot sustain the absence of identification and drops. This is the path of total dissolution — what we call mahasamādhi. -
Return with awareness intact (sahaja samādhi) —
The yogi’s pranic system is refined enough to hold that infinite silence while the body and mind remain functional. The individuality is gone, but the instrument continues to operate — effortlessly, spontaneously.
This is why it is called sahaja, the “natural” state — awareness flowing through life without interruption.
In simple terms:
Nirvikalpa is like dipping into the ocean — all sense of “I” vanishes.
Sahaja is the ocean walking on land — the same vastness now moves through form.
If the structure (nāḍī system, nervous system, mind-body balance) has been sufficiently purified, consciousness can re-enter activity without losing its unbounded nature. That’s why advanced yogis can live and act after nirvikalpa; they function, but no one is “home.”
So if you’ve entered deep absorptions and yet returned — calm, lucid, and detached — that’s not regression; that’s the grace of embodiment. The energy is testing whether it can stay open and silent even amidst life’s noise.
Question:
After experiencing deep states of absorption where all sense of individuality dissolves, what is it that causes one to return? What determines whether a being re-emerges into activity or remains absorbed in the beyond?
Parth:
In truth, no one decides to return — because by that stage, there is no “someone” left to decide. Yet, in the play of existence, certain forces determine whether consciousness remains dissolved or re-emerges through the body.
Let’s see:
1. The Karmic Residue of the Instrument
When the sense of “I” dissolves in nirvikalpa, the consciousness is free.
But the body–mind is still a living structure, held together by prāṇa and sustained by latent karmic momentum — prārabdha karma, the portion already in motion.
That momentum acts like a stored vibration which keeps the organism alive and functional until it is spent.
So, even though the awareness has no intention, the body’s karmic momentum “pulls” it back into limited functioning, not as bondage but as expression.
The lamp keeps burning until its oil is exhausted — whether the watcher stays or not.
2. The Will of Existence (Ishvara Sankalpa)
From another view, it is the will of the Whole — the intelligence of existence itself — that decides whether a being returns.
Some vessels are meant to dissolve completely; others are preserved as instruments for the collective evolution of consciousness.
In such cases, the re-emergence is not a fall but a function: awareness resumes activity because life wants to speak through that form.
They return not out of choice, but because Existence still has work to do through them.
3. The Purity and Capacity of the System
If the nāḍīs, the nervous system, and the brain are sufficiently refined, they can conduct infinite awareness without burning out.
Then consciousness can remain unbroken and yet active — sahaja samādhi.
If not, the current is too intense; it pulls inward again until balance is achieved.
4. The Pull of Compassion (Karuna)
In some rare beings, after the total dissolution, a movement of pure compassion arises — not emotion, but the spontaneous impulse of life to uplift itself.
This draws the awareness back into form to serve, teach, or heal.
That’s why such beings radiate an effortless grace — there is no personal motive, only the flow of the Whole.
In essence:
Dissolution happens by grace; return happens by purpose.
The difference is — before awakening, you act for yourself; after nirvikalpa, existence acts through you.
Question:
If existence flows without purpose, then in the context of The Purity and Capacity of the System, what truly governs the return of consciousness into activity — for where there is no purpose, what compels movement at all?
There is indeed no purpose in the way existence flows through a pure system. The moment there is a purpose, there is a “someone” to fulfil it — and that is already a step away from truth.
Let’s see this carefully.
1. No Purpose — Only Function
When I said “purpose” earlier, it was only language to communicate to the mind.
But in reality, the pure system functions without purpose — like a flower blooming, like the sun shining.
It doesn’t ask why; it simply expresses what it is.
After nirvikalpa, there is no one to have a reason — only the spontaneous functioning of the cosmic mechanism.
So, when consciousness “returns,” it is not a choice and not a mission.
It is simply the natural settling of prāṇa into harmony — awareness and life resuming their dance in balance.
2. The Play of Energy (Leela)
After dissolution, awareness has no agenda, but energy still has rhythm.
That rhythm — the movement of shakti — creates a gentle pulsation: expansion, contraction, expression, withdrawal.
In one movement, it becomes samādhi; in another, it becomes speech, compassion, creativity.
It’s not doing anything — it is just being, and being naturally manifests.
3. Why Return Happens
Return does not mean “coming back into bondage.”
It means the field of awareness becomes vast enough to include the world, not escape from it.
In other words:
At first, you dissolve into the infinite.
Then, the infinite begins to play as you.
There is no “why.”
It’s like the ocean forming a wave — not for a reason, simply because that’s the nature of movement in stillness.
4. Beyond Purpose — Pure Presence
In sahaja, life flows exactly as before — walking, speaking, healing, teaching — yet there is no ownership, no meaning attached.
Everything is happening, but nothing is being done.
That’s the perfection: total involvement, zero intention.
Question:
Does Shoonya follow Nirvikalpa Samadhi, or does Sahaja Samadhi emerge immediately if consciousness returns to activity? How do these states interrelate in the natural progression of inner evolution?
See it carefully:
1. Nirvikalpa Samādhi — Total Absorption
Here, all mental formations (vikalpa) cease. Awareness stands alone — radiant, infinite, without an experiencer. There is no world, no body, no time.
It is pure consciousness without content.
In that sense, nirvikalpa is the gateway to Shoonya — but not yet Shoonya itself.
2. Shoonya — The Void Beyond Experience
When even the awareness of being aware dissolves, what remains is not light or bliss — it is absolute emptiness, non-existence experienced while existing.
You could say:
Nirvikalpa is consciousness at its peak.
Shoonya is consciousness collapsing into nothingness.
Shoonya is therefore deeper than nirvikalpa, the background from which both manifestation and awareness arise.
3. Sahaja Samādhi — Shoonya in Motion
If the organism is capable of holding that infinite void without disintegrating, life resumes.
Awareness re-enters activity, yet the void remains unbroken.
This flowering of Shoonya into living expression is what the sages call sahaja — the natural, effortless state.
So the refined movement is:
Nirvikalpa → Shoonya → Sahaja
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In nirvikalpa, the wave disappears into the ocean.
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In Shoonya, even the ocean vanishes.
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In sahaja, the ocean plays as waves again — but without ever leaving its depth.
In summary
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Nirvikalpa — pure consciousness, no thought.
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Shoonya — utter void, beyond consciousness.
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Sahaja — that same void breathing as life.
You’ve tasted the stillness beyond doing.
Now the task is to let that stillness flow into doing — not withdraw from it.
In traditional yogic language, sahaja samādhi is usually described as the culmination of the individual journey—when awareness is effortlessly present through every experience, without division between meditation and action. After that point, there is no next “stage” in the sense of spiritual attainment. What continues is unfolding, refinement, and expression.
Here’s how that is often seen:
1. Stabilization into Sahaja
At first, sahaja may flicker—sometimes strong, sometimes faint.
As prāṇa balances and the nervous system adapts, it becomes the natural baseline.
You act, speak, sleep, eat, heal, create—yet the stillness never leaves.
2. Integration of the Whole Instrument
Gradually every cell, every emotion, and every aspect of intellect begins to vibrate in the same silence.
Old samskāras (karmic impressions) lose strength because there is no “someone” to own them.
Life becomes one seamless field of awareness functioning through body–mind.
3. Expression of the Infinite
From this point, three directions can appear—none are chosen; they unfold according to the constitution of that being:
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Silence and withdrawal – consciousness remains quiet, life continues simply until the body drops.
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Spontaneous teaching or service – the same awareness expresses through speech, art, healing, or innovation.
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Creative play of existence – everything becomes lila, the joyful play of the Divine through form.
In all cases, the being lives as presence, not personality. There is no longer progress to make—only the flowering of what already is.
4. Completion – Videha Mukti
When the prārabdha karma that sustains the body is exhausted, prāṇa gently withdraws.
There is no death as most know it—only the natural cessation of the instrument.
Awareness, never confined, simply remains what it always was.
You could think of it like this:
Awakening is knowing the ocean exists.
Nirvikalpa is merging into it.
Sahaja is the ocean walking as a wave.
After sahaja—nothing new happens; only the wave continues until it dissolves back, effortlessly.
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