Aniroodh Sivaraman, 

The only thing he did to attain this was stated:

• a high samadhi state, where his subtle body remained immobile, with the senses and adjuncts turned inward intently

He did not plan this. It just happened to be the outcome of his samadhi practice. He resurfaced from that to a chit akash dimension where the subtle body is only a face type format with no limbs and trunk.

This may be compared to the hatching of eggs, where because of the heat from the hen’s body, after some days, the eggs go on developing and then are hatched by a natural process which was not planned by the hen or the chicks.

In that state one does not think as we do. The psyche experiences only a moonlight samadhi bliss state. There was a tendency in his psyche to check with Babaji and that is why he saw me. But he had no other interest in anything on this side of existence.

It is important to understand that one may do the same samadhi and not get the result which he attained. This too can be understood by the example of the hen and chicks, where some of the eggs do not develop, while some developed partially, and some others developed fully but with defects.

One yogi is successful with a process given by a guru. Another yogi using the same method gets no result. He leaves and becomes a disbeliever. Then another yogi decides to meditate a bit longer and he becomes successful.