a paradise where he fulfills all his desires and after that he receives again initiation from his master and realizes permanent union with Śiva - "Medium Inferior Grace" - is similar to "Medium Middle Grace" except that in this case the aspirant desires worldly pleasures more than union with Śiva; he needs to be reincarnated again as a spiritual seeker to attain liberation - "Inferior Grace" - for those who receive this level of grace, the aspiration to be united with Śiva is present only in times of distress and suffering; the grace of Śiva needs to work in them for many lifetimes before spiritual liberation occurs Table Descriptions Swami Muktananda, in his book Play of Consciousness, describes in great detail his experience of receiving shaktipat initiation from his guru Bhagawan Nityananda and his spiritual development that unfolded after this event. Paul Zweig has written of his experience of receiving shaktipat from Muktananda. In the same book Itzhak Bentov describes his laboratory measurements of kundalini-awakening through shaktipat, 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. Barbara Brennan describes shaktipat as the projection of the guru's "aura" on the disciple who thereby acquires the same mental state, hence the importance of the high spiritual level of the guru. The physiological phenomena of rising kundalini then naturally manifest. In his book, Building a Noble World, Shiv R. Jhawar describes his shaktipat 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 crux of the question is: What do we meditate upon?’ Continuing his talk, Baba said: ‘Kundalini starts dancing when one repeats Om Namah Shivaya.’Hearing this, I mentally repeated the mantra, I noticed that my breathing was getting heavier. Suddenly, I felt a great impact of a rising force within me. 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. As I lay there with my eyes closed, I could see a continuous fountain of dazzling white lights erupting within me. In brilliance, these lights were brighter than the sun but possessed no heat at all. I was experiencing