Your Truth or Mine...

'There are questions and there are answers. And then, there is the right answer.'
-Anonymous

Its not often in one's life that a guy tells you that religion is logical and proceeds to explain you the pure logic. Its not often that you end up understanding what this guy is talking and seem bewildered at the simplicity of it all. Its not often that you can actually understand and appreciate religion(dharma). The question is - which dharma?

Many centuries ago, in India, dharma was different from 'sect'(sampradaya). There wasn't a Hindu dharma or a Muslim dharma. There was one dharma - The law of nature. Fire burns; burning is its dharma, its nature. Its that simple.

Its not often that you end up not talking for days. Its not often that sit down to know yourself. Its not often that you learn something and feel that others should learn it too. Its not often that you encounter something thats simple yet not even close to easy. What?

An art. A technique. A tool. The right answer. Vipassana. Re-discovered by Siddharth Gautam in the 5th century B.C. and passed on to the masses. Lost to India about five hundred years later yet preserved by a line of disciples in adjoining Burma. Brought back to India in the 20th century by a gentleman named Satyanarayan Goenka. A loan reimbursed. A prophecy fulfilled.

The course starts off with an uncomplicated explanation of 'Knowledge of the truth' - Goenkaji says, " When you hear something or read it, you only believe that it is the truth. When you do and experience something, you know that it is the truth." The rest, as they say, is history.