Traditional Shaktipata (Sanskrit: शक्तिपात, romanized: śaktipāta)[1] or Shaktipat refers in Hinduism to the transmission (or conferring) of spiritual energy upon one person by another or directly from the deity.
[11] In the same book Itzhak Bentov describes his laboratory measurements of kundalini-awakening through shaktipata,[12] a study held in high regard by the late Satyananda Saraswati, founder of the Bihar School of Yoga, and by Hiroshi Motoyama, author of Theories of the Chakras.
[13] In his book, Building a Noble World, Shiv R. Jhawar describes his shaktipata experience at Muktananda's public program at Lake Point Tower in Chicago on September 16, 1974 as follows: "Baba [Swami Muktananda] had just begun delivering his discourse with his opening statement: 'Today's subject is meditation.
The intensity of this rising kundalini force was so tremendous that my body lifted up a little and fell flat into the aisle; my eyeglasses flew off.
Outwardly, at that precise moment, Baba shouted delightedly from his platform, "Mene kuch nahi kiya; kisiko shakti ne pakda" ("I didn't do anything.
In Sahaj Marg, yogic transmission is named Pranahuti (Devanagari: प्राणाहूति, IAST: prāṇāhūti) from prāṇā, "life force" and āhūti, "offering".