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the Guru who would teach, in practice, the several centres within the human body which have correspondential contact with the macrocosmos. Some of them taught the kundalini method which attempts to lift up the kundalini through the middle nerve (susumna). They of course conceived it also as female force (sakti) - Mahamudra in the navel - which is lifted up to the Sahasrara (yuganaddha).
The Buddhist sahajiyas conceived sahaja as Mahasukha which is the unity of the duality represented as man and woman, as upaya and prajna. It is essentially a sexual-yogic symbolism, and in gross forms, sexual-yogic practice as well.
The Vaisnava Sahaja supplied the element of love that transformed the relationship and sublimated it. However the doctrine of parakiya and svakiya - love for the Supreme Other (Para) has been praised as more transforming and sublimating, leading to Mahasukha, whereas the latter may lead to maha-avidya because of its selfish inwardness.
There have been some sahajiyas who have claimed sahaja as rasa, bhajan and so on. As one of the modern expositors of Sri Krsna Caitanya's methodology has stated "Sri Krsna Caitanya had never permitted amorousness. In other words, it is wrong to think that amorousness or voluptuousness is natural at all. It is unnatural. He claims that his sahaja was audarya Lila not madhurya lila, as Ramanand Rai's disciples claimed."2
The sahajiya cult had developed esoteric concepts which are clothed in mystical language. Most mystic bhakti poetry had its roots in the sahaja. But the whole trouble about this mysticism is that it enlightens, or seeks to enlighten, the vulgar terms by importing sophisticated mystical meanings or suggestions, rather than by trying to sublimate them. The result has been disastrous to religious experiences as well as to spirituality.
The original concept of sahaja is that it meant the experience that comes about by living with the Ultimate Reality, rather than what it has been ingeniously derived as that which arises at the time of the origination of any entity (saha jayate iti sahajah: Hevajra tantra). The natural way of living was said to be the most happy state. The happiest state or mahasukha comes by living in the Divine Nature rather than in the lower Nature. The Purusa