It is your soul, purusha, that reincarnates from one lifetime to the next.  Shaktipat gives you freedom from the cycle of lifetimes, freedom from the limitation of feeling separate from others, freedom from the feeling of being separate from God.  For God is being you, and me, and everyone and everything.  When you look all the way inward, you find…

—  Gurudevi Nirmalananda

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Body, Mind & More“