During the first chant, my whole body began to resonate with the vibration of the Guru’s voice and it felt like every atom of my physical form had infinite space around it—no boundaries, no separation. I was no longer contained and my whole body was vibrating with the chant.

Eastbourne, United Kingdom

My experience in the Shaktipat Intensive was a discovery. For the first time, I saw Baba as a teacher whose firm intention was to give me the experience of the divine.

I was mesmerized by the chant toward the end of the Intensive. I chanted with all my heart. Many days later, I chanted along with this namasankirtana on the Siddha Yoga path website. Chanting it, I relived my experience of the Intensive. I felt filled with the presence of Baba. I chanted it all day long. At the end of the day, I felt that I was in my heart.

I feel that my chanting has been totally transformed. I feel so much more joy and contentment. I am so grateful to Baba.

Garges-lès-Gonesse, France

I had the great good fortune to attend the Shaktipat Intensive 2025 twice. At the end of the first offering of the Intensive, I immediately started looking into how I could attend the second, and I feel fortunate to have found a way.

For me, this Intensive was a clear reminder of why I am on the Siddha Yoga path: to discover within me the joy and happiness I thought I would get from sources outside of myself.

I was inspired in this Intensive to deepen my practices, not only because I am approaching my golden years, but also because I feel that by doing sadhana, I benefit myself and everyone around me. Every segment of the Intensive rekindled within me the joy and love I felt during my first years on the Siddha Yoga path.

Willemstad, Curacao

Many years ago, just after I participated in a Shaktipat Intensive for the first time, I was walking from the venue to the train station to go home. As I observed the people and buildings around me, it felt as if a soft white veil were gently enveloping everything. In that quiet moment, I thought to myself, “Wow! Everything is so beautiful!”

Through this year’s Shaktipat Intensive, I have come to understand that the experience I had then was not merely a fleeting impression, but the very truth the Guru reveals to us. I am deeply grateful to the Guru, who continually awakens the love within us and guides us to perceive the world as it truly is.

Having experienced this year’s Intensive, I now approach my daily practices with a deepened sense of gratitude and courage.

Melbourne, Australia

As we chanted during the Shaktipat Intensive, I was drawn deeper and deeper into my inner Self. I realized that Baba’s love has always been with me, and that my feelings of unworthiness have kept me from experiencing it all these years. I felt the healing power of Baba’s love.

All I can do to thank Baba is love him back in all the forms that come into my life.

Clifton Hill, Australia

This Shaktipat Intensive was especially powerful for me. Several times I experienced blue light pervading the room. The timeless teachings of the Guru gave me such a helpful perspective on our current times and on the power of my sadhana.

During the meditations, I kept flashing back to my years of sadhana in Gurudev Siddha Peeth and Shree Muktananda Ashram. I always reflect on the preciousness of those years, but this time it was as though all those thousands of practices I performed back then were brought to the present, and I could feel their fruit within me now.

What a divine gift! I am so grateful to Baba and Gurumayi.

California, United States

When I participated in this Shaktipat Intensive, my joy knew no bounds. 

During meditation I felt the divine presence of Shri Guru within me. Throughout the Intensive I felt immense love and affection from Baba and Gurumayi. I absorbed the Guru’s teachings with great concentration, and I internalized them. When I chanted the divine name, I felt I was sitting in the Guru’s presence.

I will always be grateful to Shri Guru for giving me shaktipat in this Shaktipat Intensive.

Ahmedabad, India

One of the experiences I had in this wonderful Shaktipat Intensive was feeling Baba’s living presence in the room. The vibrant, divine life I felt in Baba’s tangible presence erased the sense of ordinary time; it opened a gateway to a divine time that allowed me to participate in an experience of the nature of the Guru.

Through Baba’s love and compassion, I experienced my fundamental nature, which is divine and eternal. During one of the meditations the image of a brilliant column of pulsating light arose in me. In this column the forms of people appeared, among whom I recognized myself and my beloved Gurumayi. These forms were born from light, they manifested in that light, and became reabsorbed into that light. I understood that this is the essence of our life, our origin, and our goal—the vibrant light of God, which is eternal and infinite.

Macerata, Italy

This year I participated in the Shaktipat Intensive at Gurudev Siddha Peeth. It was even more joyous for me as I was asked to offer seva near the end of the Intensive.

During the Intensive I found myself wondering how this experience might be different from the times when Baba was there in front of many people. I was thinking during the chant that I was a separate entity from Baba and that I had never been able to meet him in person. But as I offered seva near the end of the Intensive, I heard Baba say within me, I love you. I was stunned to hear this, and immediately replied, “I love you too, Baba.” As I said this, I felt his presence within me and around me.

Vapi, India

This Shaktipat Intensive was one gift after another for me. First, I was healthy and strong enough to offer seva before, during, and after the event. For me, this is a huge bonus, because while I am busy with seva, the Guru is busy with me.

To put my experiences briefly, I experienced Baba—Baba’s energy, Baba’s state, Baba’s wisdom, Baba’s grace, Baba’s love, Baba’s ecstasy—Baba, the great and beloved Siddha Guru.

All these experiences are anchored in my heart, woven into the fabric of my being forever.

Konolfingen, Switzerland

It’s been a week since I participated in the Shaktipat Intensive, and I can’t stop thinking of Baba. I feel his benevolence. This Intensive was like being in his presence. Enveloped by his grace, his majesty, what else is there to desire in this life!

California, United States

Experiencing Baba’s talks, I felt like I was in the room with him. For me, so much of this Shaktipat Intensive felt like time had melted away and I was with Baba. During the namasankirtana, this feeling became even stronger. As I connected to Baba’s love, I felt this love has been with me through every Siddha Yoga retreat, satsang, and seva visit to the Ashram for the last twenty-nine years. My face streamed with tears. My heart feels bigger and the power of the Guru’s love seems beyond what I can fully comprehend with my mind.

North Carolina, United States

My heart is so full this Sunday morning after the Shaktipat Intensive. I am deeply grateful to Gurumayi for providing us with this Intensive. It took me back to the early days when I found myself suddenly on the path to the divine, when everything began to shimmer with love and continual bliss for me, and when I perceived powerful, scintillating blue gems everywhere.

California, United States

During this Shaktipat Intensive, I felt that Gurumayi offered us an incredible gift: to experience Baba’s shakti directly. Throughout the Intensive I felt his energy in the room, in others, and in my heart.

I experienced this Shaktipat Intensive as a journey with my sister back to Ganeshpuri in my childhood during Baba’s time. It was the same energy. I felt the sweetness of the gardens at Gurudev Siddha Peeth, and the strength of Baba’s shakti. I was, and I am still, back there at Baba’s feet.

Annecy, France

For me, the Shaktipat Intensive opened the portal to true reality, a portal of grace and tenderness. The Intensive contained so much of the Guru’s light and love, with spheres of compassion, knowledge, and dharma. The Intensive so clearly reminded me of Gurumayi’s Message for 2025: “Make your time worth your time.”

Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina

The Shaktipat Intensive was an incredibly blessed day, filled with divine grace. The Intensive time seemed to pass so quickly, and I felt the importance of cherishing each moment. Chanting was a divine experience, and my heart was overflowing with love, devotion, and gratitude.

Oakville, Canada

What an extraordinary Shaktipat Intensive—a divine gem! I was with Baba throughout the day! I met Baba when I was a child, so this Intensive meant a lot to me. At the end I was crying because I was grateful and felt complete.

This day with Baba rejuvenated me and gave me the firm intention to make a better use of my time. I have resolved to turn within by having a daily routine, beginning by simply bowing in front of my puja and reconnecting with my Self.

I am grateful to Baba for his incredible love.

Paris, France

Since participating in the Siddha Yoga Shaktipat Intensive, my meditation has deepened. It is sublime. I am most grateful.

Michigan, United States

I participated in the Shaktipat Intensive at the Siddha Yoga Meditation Center located in the Sonoran Desert. During the final meditation period, huge, long rolls of thunder went on and on unfurling, and the skies opened, bringing a much-needed deluge of purifying rain. I was aware of this throughout my meditation while also being immersed in a deep, sweet space. The rain let up just as the meditation was ending. I think I was smiling the whole time—and I still am. 

Arizona, United States

I had the good fortune of staying at a Siddha Yoga Ashram for three days prior to the Shaktipat Intensive. Participating in the Ashram Daily Schedule was a great boon in preparing me for the Shaktipat Intensive. 

My main intention going into the Intensive was to receive direct guidance for my sadhana. Since my recent retirement, my days are wide open, unlike the way they were in previous decades. 

As I participated in the Intensive, I felt my heart opening. In meditation, I experienced my mind being drawn to the highest, and throughout the day the Guru’s teachings kept moving through me. Finally, toward the end of the Intensive as I was meditating, from deep within came the words of a particular teaching, and I instantly knew how best to use my time now that I am retired. Through grace, my intention bore fruit. What a blessing!

California, United States

After participating in the Shaktipat Intensive yesterday, I am stunned by the change I am experiencing within me in just one day. I feel like the Guru’s grace combed through my being and swept away all the negativities that were loose enough to go. I feel a renewed alignment with my calm awareness and am excited to be reunited with “the experience of the divine” within me.

After forty-five years as a student on the Siddha Yoga path, I remain in awe of Gurumayi’s grace. I am so grateful, and I pray to be able to participate in this Shaktipat Intensive again.

Washington, United States

I experienced nothing but absolute and total bliss during the Shaktipat Intensive. I felt floods of love toward Baba and infinite gratitude for Baba’s eternal love for all.

Dombivli, India

As I write this, it’s 2:30 in the morning after my first Shaktipat Intensive. I woke up an hour ago crying tears of love, joy, and gratitude. Words just seem so inadequate for an account of this incredible, wonderful day. Grace guided me seamlessly from one amazing experience to the next. It was indeed “a wise use of time,” which provided me with a profound “experience of the divine.”

I feel wholly new and determined to live each moment as an expression of thanksgiving.

Oregon, United States

I had a beautiful experience during the Shaktipat Intensive 2025. It was wonderful to feel taken care of and to be able to meditate so easily. The whole Intensive helped me go deeply into meditation. Life can sometimes be a struggle, so I found being cared for during the Intensive to be very nourishing.

I am already seeing change unfolding in my life at home. I love the title of this Intensive and have been contemplating and repeating it during my day. As I go about my day, I am guided to “experience the divine” by changing my habits and listening deeply within.

I am very grateful for this gentle, loving, and transforming “experience of the divine.”

Washington, United States

During the Shaktipat Intensive, I was experiencing so much love within me after one of the chants that I kept looking at the photos of my Shri Gurus and repeating silently, “Baba ji, I love you. Gurumayi ji, I love you.” And I couldn’t stop repeating this as I was bathing in their love.

I am immensely grateful to be able to walk this golden path, and to receive my Shri Gurus’ teachings and most precious love!

Pune, India