people really want to learn some way to get rid of their sufferings... meditation - the ultimate way!!
Vipassana sadhana sansthan organized a "Vipassana meditation introductory programme" on Jan 26th at logicstat farms, Delhi, India. I reached the center on prior evening to help manage few things. There was not much to work in the early night so we did a 1 hour group sitting. People informed that it was a good experience to mefiatate together in the Pagoda. At dinner table we decided few things and planned a 5-7 meditation sitting in morning. When some good experienced meditators shared their meditation wisdom then again I realised that I need to go a long way and need to work alot...
I woke up exactly at 5, rushed to the pagoda and was able to meditate till 7 :) We had to go out to get keys as some stuff was locked in store, so no breakfast :) does not matter... it was too foggy outside...we missed the 8-9 planned sitting...
we got ready for the day and started to make some last moment arrangement... I was supposed put TV and VCR in small hall....the TV was at ground floor..before bringing it down to the basement it did make it sure that it was working, but, it did not work in the hall...ouch!!! at the very last moment, it took us 30Mins to get the TV working...:)
we started to gather and by 11Am there were around 500 people, around 150 among them were new people who were interested in Vipassana Meditation. I got the responsibility of playing cassette in small hall, which we decided to use a female hall at the last moment. Mr. S.N.Goenka's discourse was played to provide basic information about meditation and Vipassana meditation. Ladies did show a great interest...
After discourse came the Quesiton Answer session, the most overwhelming part... people(ladies) were so curios to learn that somehow they just wanted to do the 10 day course...some were unable to do because they had small babies... teacher informed that centres with creche facilities are coming up!! now, more than them they were worried that how can they put their children on the path of mediation...? this was their biggest concern... they were inquiring about all the available courses for children. There are 2 day courses for the age group between 8-12Yrs and a seven day course from 13-17Yrs age group. Thacher's do go to the schools to take the courses...they can visit any one's place if there are around 15 children. Children are the best candidates for meditation...they adapt it so fast....subsequently it helps them in all fields...:) one lady asked how can infants, below age 6, be filled with good sanskars!!! this is not possible externally, but if the mother does right meditation when the child is in womb then it really helps....:)
during the session and after the session I was feeling a different kind of joy!! I do not know why but it was there...
later on, it was time to serve the lunch and the 'snake shaped' queue was a scene to watch.... :) it was good to be on the serving side of the table... it was fun...as always!!
