This is the point of meditation, that your Kundalini will climb your spine and merge into your sahasrara.  That you will be jivanmukta, enlightened while alive.  And you will be engaged with the world — fulfilling your dharma, completing your karmas, giving from the… 

—  Gurudevi Nirmalananda

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Merging Into the Inner Infinity“