ABSTRACT
This chapter explores two separate yet related experiences of the participants' spiritual life namely, the guru and their experience of the spiritual. It incorporates two discussions. The first discussion follows: Meeting the Guru, and Understanding the Guru while the second and related discussion concerns the individual's experience of Shaktipat and spiritual experience. The chapter presents Gurudisciple Yoga Practice. It explores their experiences of meeting the guru and the ways in which they have gained an understanding of guru. The energy in the context of Siddha Yoga is often discussed in terms of Shakti or the guru's Shakti. Individuals gained an understanding of the guru in different ways and some appeared to build an understanding from Siddha Yoga perspective and philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism. The ways in which individual's spiritual life or Sadhana began to be manifested was usually through Shaktipat from the guru.
