Shaktipat or
Saktipata (
Sanskrit, from
shakti - "(psychic) energy" - and
pata, "to fall") refers in
Hinduism to the conferring of spiritual "energy" upon one person by another.
Shaktipat can be transmitted with a sacred word or
mantra, or by a look, thought or touch – the last usually to the
ajna chakra or
third eye of the recipient.