Question: Babaji, in meditation I often drift off into nothingness, like I’ve been somewhere. I feel separate from my body as if in a void.

Babaji:

The soul never really travels anywhere. It remains intact and is all pervading. When we meditate and we gain more concentration, the mind loses its imaginations and tries to lift body consciousness upwards, this body consciousness is called kundalini. This kundalini consciousness is the same substance as the mind is. Before attaining samadhi, the kundalini rising can create certain sensations like a feeling of lightness, being out of the body, increase in body temperature, the illusion of travelling through space, etc. It is only the mind which has gone somewhere in its imagination. If our aim is Self-Realisation and Divinity, we must understand that all such experiences are illusions. The mind and kundalini get de-linked from the brain, then later we proceed to samadhi. What you’re experiencing is a sign of progress, just don’t analyse what is happening, otherwise the mind comes into existence and gets involved.