Publisher's Synopsis
Shaktipat is in a way an injection of Shakti. The master injects in the astral body of the initiated a current of psychic power, or a doze of astral fluid of a high potentiality by the touch of his hands, by casting a look or by speaking out to him some word or words called mantras, or any one of God's holy names, or simply by a mere thought. When the Divine Power is thus transmitted She acts in the favoured in such a way that the dormant power of kundalini is awakened, or we may say that the fire of kundalini is ignited and set into flames throughout the nervous system, which ultimately opens the door of Sushumna and rises up to cerebrum (sahasrar) piercing through the six centres of the spinal passage along with the nervous centres in the medula oblangata. Shaktipat Deeksha is also known as Vedha Deeksha. The term vedha literally means piercing through, because the Guru rouses the kundalini and makes Her pierce through the six chakras. By touch, look and thought the Shakti travels from one body to the other through the medium of the all-pervading Astral fluid; whereas in the case of speech the words spoken serve as medium for carrying the Shakti. Such words are called Shaktisamputitha(infused) mantras or in other words mantras charged with Shakti.
