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Practitioners believe that during meditation they experience a state of self-realization produced by [[kundalini]] awakening, and that this is accompanied by the experience of thoughtless awareness or mental silence.<ref name="Sahaja Yoga Book 1">{{Cite book |first=Nirmala |last=Srivastava |author-link=Nirmala Srivastava |title=Sahaja Yoga Book One |edition=2nd |publisher=Nirmala Yoga |year=1989 |location=Australia }}{{npsn|date=July 2019}}{{Page needed|date=April 2014}}</ref>

Shri Mataji described Sahaja Yoga as the pure, universal religion integrating all other religions.<ref name=coney1999/> She claimed that she was a divine incarnation,<ref name="inform" /> more precisely an [[incarnation]] of the Holy Spirit, or the [[Adi-shakti|Adi Shakti]] of the Hindu tradition, the great mother goddess who had come to save humanity.<ref name=coney1999/><ref name=kakar/> This is also how she is regarded by most of her devotees.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |url=http://www.sahajayoga.org/propheciesfulfillments/default.asp |title=Prophecies and Fulfillments |date=7 May 2017 |website=Sahaja Yoga Meditation |publisher=Vishwa Nirmala Dharma |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512133138/http://www.sahajayoga.org/propheciesfulfillments/default.asp |archive-date=12 May 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> Sahaja Yoga has sometimes been characterized as a [[cult]].<ref name=be-advisory/><ref name="jma" />

== Etymology ==