As Kundalini travels up the sushumna and merges with the sahasrara / Shiva, the individual attains the state of samadhi (awareness in which one experiences the supreme reality and becomes Self-realised).

In the center of the sahasrara, there is a triangle, which one sees in meditation, and in the center of this triangle resides supreme Shiva, who is also called the supreme Guru. This is the goal of the Kundalini's journey. When the Kundalini reaches the sahasrara, it plays, and in doing so, it makes the knowledge arise in you that everything is the play of God. This is called pure knowledge, or shudha vidya, in Shaivism; the Shivasutras say that when this pure knowledge arises in you, you attain Godhood.

In the center of that effulgence lies a tiny and fascinating beautiful light, the Blue Pearl, and when your meditation deepens you begin to see it, sparkling and scintillating.

The scriptures describe this Blue Pearl as the divine light of Consciousness, which dwells in everyone. It is the actual form of the Self, our innermost reality, the form of God which lies within us. The Blue Pearl is subtler than the subtlest. It is the size of a sesame seed. Yet even though it is so tiny, it is very big, for this whole world of movable and immovable things is contained within it. .. within the Blue Pearl are millions and millions of universes. The Blue Pearl contains the entire cosmos.

The vision of the Blue Pearl is not the end of your journey. Finally, as you meditate and meditate, one day the Blue Pearl will explode, and its light will fill the universe, and you will experience your all-pervasiveness. This experience is the culmination of sadhana, the ultimate realisation. In this state, you lose the awareness of your own body, and merge with the body of God. It was when he became absorbed in the intoxication of this state of divinity that the great Sufi saint Mansur Mastana said, Analhaq - 'I am God'. It was experiencing this that the great Shankaracharya proclaimed with firm conviction, 'I am Shiva'.

The truth is, this very body is the temple of God. There is no greater temple than this human body. Everyone should contemplate this and understand that God lies within.

This is the knowledge that arises as Kundalini merges in the sahasrara. This is the state of Parabhakti, supreme devotion, in which there is no devotee, no God and no world, but only oneness. Just as a river, after flowing for a long time, merges with the ocean and becomes the ocean, when Kundalini has finished Her work and stabilised in the sahasrara, you become completely immersed in God. All your impurities and coverings are destroyed, and you take complete rest in the Self. The veil which made you see duality drops away, and you experience the world as a blissful play of Kundalini, a sport of God's energy. You see the universe as supremely blissful light, undifferentiated from yourself, and you remain unshakeable in this awareness. This is the state of liberation, the state of perfection.

A human being who has attained this state does not have to close his eyes and retire to a solitary place to get into samadhi. Whether he is meditating, eating, bathing, sleeping, whether he is alone or with others, he experiences the peace and joy of the Self. Whatever he sees is God, whatever he tastes is god, whatever words he speaks are God's. In the midst of the world, he experiences the solitude of a cave, and in the midst of people, he experiences the bliss of samadhi.

It is to attain this that we should meditate, that we should have our Kundalini awakened. We meditate so that we can become aware of God manifest within us. This is the knowledge of Siddha Yoga, the fruit of the inner yoga which is activated when Kundalini is awakened by the grace of a perfect master.
And this is why I tell everyone, 'Meditate on your Self, honour your Self, worship your Self, for God dwells within you as you.'

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