So can you, Richard, give shaktipat?
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Of course, but I don't usually give out that teaching for the simple
reason that students can become dependent on it and thus fail to
develop their own shakti. According to the other Barry, it's really
no big deal - it's based on attention meditation. You develop
kundalini every time you practice TM.
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On 12/7/2014 11:04 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
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How many people have you given shaktipat to?
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Being an ex-military brat for 18 years, counting my residence of 10
years in California, and my 15 years employment at my local community
college, I'd estimate that I've given third-eye "shaktipat" to at
least 10,000 individual over a period of 70 years.
In my relationship to Rita, I've probably giver her the left-hand
shaktipat at least once every week for the past 20 years. It's not
complicated when you have a real Shakti to give it to, instead of just a
paper doll.
It only seems to be esoteric to single guys, but in reality it's just
what normal couples do. On the path of Tantra it's called "energized
enthusiasm". Go figure.
The term "shaktipat" refers to the conferring of spiritual energy upon
one person by another. "Shaktipat can be transmitted with a word or
mantra, or by a look, thought or just a touch" – the last usually by
means of the "yoni mudra" directly to the region of the solar plexus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaktipat
