A Guide To Shaktipat

Dialogues on the process of awakening shakti towards inner consciousness while performing Yoga.

Shaktipat is an ancient yoga technique used to awaken kundalini energy in a person. The technique can be applied remotely from any distance on a person living anywhere on the planet. The cosmic energy emanates from the body of the Shaktipat Guru, and after awakening the kundalini energy, it returns to the Guru. Thus, the process defies the rational explanation by modern science.A suggested procedure for performing Shaktipat is given in brief. However, this kind of literature is usually not found anywhere in the mainstream media. Traditionally this science has been passed on orally from Gurus to disciples since ancient times in India.The author is a Shaktipat Grand (Param) Guru. He has given Shaktipat initiation to hundreds of people from a wide range of backgrounds. Some of his students are now Shaktipat Gurus who are actively involved in spreading the message of Shaktipat.

In 1965, Swami Shivom Tirth spent some time with his spiritual master Swami Vishnu Tirth Maharaj (Maharajshri) in Jagannathpuri. During the twenty days in Jagannathpuri, he enjoyed meditation and spiritual conversations with Maharajshri to his heart?s content. As such Maharajshri usually stayed in the divine state, but since there was no one here to disrupt this state, Maharajshri was constantly in a meditative state. Even while conversing, his state of divinity was maintained. This book is a compilation of Maharajshri?s experiences regarding Swami Gangadhar Tirth Maharaj and Kalikishore (Swami Narayan Tirth Dev Maharaj, Baba), which he discussed with the author in Jagannathpuri. Whatever Maharajshri experienced, he narrated it to the author verbatim. There was no mental interference by Maharajshri in these experiences. It was like someone watching the television and narrating it to you. Maharajshri?s inner-eyes were awake and active, hence everything was visible to him.

This book provides the most comprehensive knowledge of the Shaktipat method with all its intricacies and details -- from finding a guru to inner experiences and life in an ashram.

The book answers the question what Self-realization is and which stages lie before and beyond. It contributes to the field of such books by focusing on lovebliss and the spiritual energy of the Self (Shakti), rather than simply pure being or the now. It is written solely from experience. Further it contributes by putting the insights of the first two thirds of the book into perspective with new readable translations (from Sanskrit with commentaries) of Yoga-S

"Experience the prescence of the Divine in your own soul with this guide to using Kundalini (or spirit) energy for spiritual awakening. Kundalini for Beginners introduces you to the philosophy and techniques of the "Shortest Path to God." Learn how to activate asnd assist in the role of Kundalini, and channel this energy in transcendent ways. Discover the five stages of self-realization, and the exceptional experiences that accompany each stage of spiritual transformation." -- back cover.

Account of the awakening of the kundalini process by Philip St. Romain, with reflection on the meaning of this process from the perspective of Christian spirituality. Foreword by Thomas Keating. Appendices by James Arraj. 2nd edition. Original work by Crossroads, NY, 1991.

This book is about the subtle energy of the life force, the pure consciousness beyond mind and the ecstatic experience of spiritual awakening. It also tells of physical collapse, psychic chaos, and personality upheaval, those elements of human transformation that uproot individuals to the core. It tells the stories of people, both ancient and modern, who have discovered and integrated an experience that pushes the edges of their sanity and their divinity. And it is a guide for survival and transformation. It appears that when people pray, meditate, or turn inward with great intensity to find God , what they may ultimately experience is the sat-chit-ananda of the ancient Indian scriptures. Sat is existence or beingness, the substance or essence that is all things. Chit is cosmic intelligence or knowledge that fills everything, a consciousness without personalidentity. Ananda is ecstatic bliss. Indian pandits identify these three qualities as the essential nature of existence. Direct intuition of them becomes possible following the eruption of Kundalini energy, which is latent in each of us. This book is to help you recognize and support a unique, universal and ageless process related to spiritual experience and psychological wholeness and identified in ancient times as Kundalini awakening.