Acharya Prashant clarifies that a Guru does not use Shaktipat as a tool or technique; rather, the Guru's mere presence is sufficient to establish one's power in divinity and bring the mind closer to the heart. He argues that when people claim a Guru performs Shaktipat, they turn the Guru into a controller or a doer. This perspective is often a subtle way for individuals to evade responsibility for their own spiritual inertia, blaming their lack of awakening on the absence of a capable Guru or divine grace. He critiques the popular imagery of a powerful Guru bestowing energy upon a weak disciple, calling it a maneuver of the ego. Many seek a Guru as a charger to replenish their energy, much like a mobile phone filled with trashy thoughts and destructive habits. They want more power just to continue their existing, flawed lifestyles. However, Acharya Prashant asserts that a true Guru acts not as a charger but as a bomb intended to shatter the disciple's ego and old patterns. True Shaktipat is simply the dawning of right understanding—the realization that life's energy and time are limited and must be directed toward the right purpose. He warns that granting power to someone who hasn't undergone internal transformation is dangerous, citing the mythological example of Bhasmasur, where power in the wrong hands leads to destruction. Addressing the feeling of fatigue in life's journey, Acharya Prashant notes that the physical journey of life inevitably ends in death. For the spiritual journey, he suggests two paths to reach a state of rest: either becoming a warrior who crushes all opposition through sheer strength or becoming zero, like air, so that no opposition can even touch or affect you. He references Kabir Saheb, noting that one can either fight with valor or completely surrender. True peace comes from either total victory over the ego or the total dissolution of the self, rather than remaining in a middle state of half-hearted desires.
