Shaktipat meditation

Nityananda is the divine presence. – Nityananda: Divine Presence
It is through a guru, master that the Shakti is awakened. – Kabir

“To actually know who you are is a big problem. You have to find out yourself where you are situated. It happens by the grace of Lord Siva, or by the grace of a master, or by the grace of the scriptures (sastras).” – Swamiji Lakshmanjoo

The mission of the Shaktipat Intensive by Acharya and Qigong Master Ricardo B Serrano is to facilitate Shaktipat Meditation, and Qigong to realize Self and Qi-healing. Realization is the merging of the mind in the Self (Divine Consciousness). In the Self-realized state, the mind becomes stable and free of thoughts; it become still. We experience supreme bliss when we go beyond thoughts. As the mind becomes one with the Self, it acquires the power of the Self that can be used for healing, creativity, rejuvenation, stress management, and for opening the heart to unconditional love, quieting the restless mind to attain personal transformation and freedom.

The technique for developing and realizing the Self, Buddha nature or Krishna nature must preferably be learned from a living spiritual teacher who can impart the proper technique, spiritual help and blessings. The spiritual technique alone is not enough. The help and blessings (Shaktipat initiation) of Acharya Ricardo B Serrano are necessary and of utmost importance.

“It is through a guru, master that the Shakti is awakened – by word, touch, look, or thought.” – Kabir

He is the real Guru
Who can reveal the form of the formless
before your eyes;
Who teaches the simple path,
without rites or ceremonies;
Who does not make you close
your doors, and hold your breath,
and renounce the world;
Who makes you perceive
the Supreme Spirit
wherever the mind attaches itself;
Who teaches you to be still
in the midst of all your activities.
Fearless, always immersed in bliss,
he keeps the spirit of yoga
in the midst of enjoyments.
KABIR

Excerpts from Oneness with Shiva

What you meditate on, you become. I meditate by chanting the great redeeming mantra OM NAMAH SHIVAYA and also on the form of my Shaiva Guru Bhagawan Nityananda to imbibe the Guru’s shakti. – Master Ricardo B Serrano

Acharya Ricardo B Serrano is just like a Self-Realized yogi, a Shaiva teacher/ guide (preceptor) or meditation Master, who acts as a clear channel for the grace of God, and the disciple’s worthiness draws that grace from him. He can awaken the disciple’s dormant spiritual energy, kundalini, through Shaktipat (transmission of divine energy) also called Tao Healing Hands from an authentic Taoist point of view.

“An ideal Guru should be capable of bestowing grace through Shaktipat… It is very rare to find such a Guru.” – Kularnava Tantra

Acharya Ricardo’s powerful inner blissful transformative experiences with Sadguru Nityananda’s Grace while performing the tantric and spiritual practices during his three month’s vacation, from November, 2009 till February 2010, in the Philippines, which drove him to write about it, have convinced him that he has become just like an Acharya with the ability to do Shaktipat. These experiences include dreams where he met face to face his late mother and Siddhas in Siddhaloka, and Self-Realization experiences such as overwhelming God’s love and universal oneness, inner peace and quiet mind he hasn’t felt before. The most powerful and unforgettable experience while practicing Shaktipat was being in the flow of a powerful loving Shakti (Qi) opening his heart greatly to God’s (Shiva’s) unconditional love and expansion of his consciousness uniting with the universal or Cosmic consciousness. He has to ground himself, connecting with Mother Earth, with Qigong to enable his physical body to handle this powerful expansion of consciousness and overwhelming Qi flow. This liberating and enlightening experience through the Grace of Bhagawan Sadguru Nityananda would be similar to a pond of water (you) reuniting and becoming one with the vastness of the ocean (God) through a river path (Sadguru).

Without God’s grace through a Guru, represented by his energy or spirit (“Shakti”), there can be no fulfillment or realization (enlightenment, liberation).

The Guru is like a boat that takes us across the ocean of worldliness toward oneness with God.

Sadgurunath Maharaj Ki Jay (Hail the true Guru).