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This article was nominated for deletion on 2 September 2010 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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I removed this section. I think we should only link to recognized authorities about shaktipat. Which begs the question, who recognizes those authorities? TheRingess 23:06, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Modern accounts of the descent of grace

We need to extract the relevant information from a few very high profile examples of the descent of grace:

Muktananda
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Bernadette Roberts
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Shaktipatacharya Priyananda Maharaj (is still giving shaktipat diksha in Wardha, Maharashtra,India)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Visarga (talk • contribs) 20:37, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Osho quote

I'm all for compact quoting, but to avoid Chinese whispers I think de-quoting or some degree of square bracket notation to indicate omitted or changed words may be in order here. (I may not be the best person to do it as I don't have the original text to compare it with.) K2709 (talk) 09:54, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I did find this article to be helpful. I think it is worth keeping. There may be more lengthier resources on this topic, but maybe somebody will come along and expand this article at a later time.Wunhand (talk) 08:37, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

hm...

i don't see anything about drugs in here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.91.124 (talk) 03:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Issues

If anyone wants to take time to improve this article, here are tips:

WP:LEAD is a summary of the article, when currently a lot of information is there that's not in the body.
The lead makes extraordinary claims in Wikipedia's voice like undisputed facts, instead of describing it as a belief-based practice.

Thanks, —Paleo Neonate – 00:01, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]