Irina Tweedy's story and Bernadette Robert's Story. Ramana Mararshi, an Indian Saint of the Twentieth Century, says that following regarding the sometimes frightening difficulties around Kundalini Awakening and resultant exalted states. But when this dies completely, without leaving even a trace, one abides as the vast space of mere consciousness where bliss alone prevails, and the quaking stops. All this is due to their viewing it intellectually. To some people whose minds have become ripe from a long practice in the past, nirvikalpa comes suddenly as a flood, but to others it comes in the course of their spiritual practice, a practice which slowly wears down the obstructing thoughts and reveals the screen of pure awareness 'I' - 'I'.
Further practice renders the screen permanently exposed.
Quote has been altered and adapted. Dialogues with Sri Sri Mata Amritanandamayi, Vol.