I thank the writer who has raised the question about Vipassana. (DV June 1, 2001, p.9: “Vipassana is a Hindu poison meant to kill Budhism”, Anil Rangari).
indian history shows that crookedness, cunningness and different wacked tactics and strategies always tried to defeat the movement for brotherhood. Despite the odds that exist, people like Budha, Mahaveer, Nanak, Kabir, Mahatma Phule, Shahu Maharaj, Babasaheb and some others have come and tried to fight the brahminical treachery.
DV has been rightly crusading against the immorality in the Hindu society.
Nazi funding: In 1995, a friend told me: “You have so much love for Baba, why don’t you go through the Vipassana course”. My first reaction was these people were using this technique to kill the anger of our society. In 1996, I underwent the ten-day Vipassana course. I cannot call it a meditation technique. For want of a proper word we call it meditation.
Vipassana empowers you to face the challenges, it clears your views and strengthens your ability to see things as they are. How the nazis will fund something which is disastrous to the nazis?
Brahmin complaint: In the first course, a Brahmin was there. After two days, he quarreled saying that Vipassana was meant to convert the people to Budhism. After the eighth day, some old upper caste people were complaining that Goenka should not have talked about the misdeeds of Brahmins.
In Baroda, we have a Vipassana Samiti. In 1998, they arranged a ten-day course. They printed the invitation card with a picture of Hindu god Ganesh. I noticed it and lambasted the samiti people. They accepted the mistake and never repeated it till date.
Vipassana does not make you a coward or senseless, as Anil Rangari and others say.
Goenka brought it from Burma: in 1969, S.N. Goenka brought this technique to India. He practiced for 14 years under Sayagi U Ba Khin in Burma, today’s Myanmar. When he was going through his first course, Babasaheb was preparing the gospel and busy formulating the future of Budhism in India. Goenka got the ready-made soil when he entered India.
Since 1998, I have been practicing Vipassana. I understand’ that it is perfectly tuned to Babasaheb’s Budha & His Dhamma.
Vipassana does not talk about mystic or supernatural force. It only teaches how to be aware of the present moment. It has nothing to do with the supra-natural. I understand that psychology is the science of the mind. Whatever thoughts the mind experiences are accumulated and according to this the individual acts. If some thinks of sexual things all the time and his conscious mind does not allow him to act because it is harmful to society then he suppresses it. So, his normal will is antagonistic to his conscious mind and in turn he will develop disease. He will go to a psychiatrist and get treatment.
Vipassana teaches you to command your mind. After Vipassana you will not play into the hands of thoughts. It empowers you to observe the thoughts objectively so you should not suppress them, or it should not overpower you. When you observe it objectively it loses strength, and you realize that it has an ever-changing phenomenon. So, you are not trapped.
DV helping conspirators: Rangari is advocating a ban on meditation, especially Vipiassana. Don’t you think that you are doing the same thing what the Brahmin conspirators have done against Shambuka? Valmiki, the enlightened one of our societies, wrote the; Ramayana to educate our people. He might have” gone through the situation like Budha and Babasaheb.
Brahmins are the advocates of Chaturvarna. They don’t allow the low-born to meditate. Their doctrine is that only Brahmins can meditate, they only have the right to learn, educate and perform the religious ceremonies etc. How a low-born can meditate? Valmiki tried to educate our society, how the Brahmins are using the double-edged sword, one way they are using the force to silence the intellectual. Other way they are preaching the superstition through the drama cutting the head of Shambuka. DV is helping the Brahmin conspirators.
Babasaheb blessed Vipassana: Sandesh Bhalekar and Bhau Lokhande may be misleading the Dalits. If Rajanish was doing the job of enslaving our society, then why was all the media against him? The DV principle is love what the enemy hates. Then why don’t you love Rajanish?
Vipassanais not a Hindu poison. Hindus are trying to poison it. By telling so, you are also degrading the merits of Budha.
But without testing the Vipassana you are advocating banning it. Are you not irrational in saying so?
I have concluded that Babashaeb has included whatever is essential and made the Budha & His Dhamma so simple that every. An ordinary person can follow it easily and moreover it is in tune with the technique of Vipassana.
Storm over Babasaheb book: It is true that all the bhikkus are not performing their duties as- desired. They think that they only have a right to talk on Budha, they only know the teachings of Budha. Are they different from the Brahmins? Brahmins are also telling that they are the only authority to talk on religious scriptures.
When the Budha & His Dhamma was published there was a storm in the Budhist world. Some of the bhikkus went to the extent of calling it “Ambedkar and his Dhamma”.
If Bhante Nirgun Anad Mahathera has called Goenka’s Vipassana as an art of sleeping by sitting then let me ask: If I was practicing the Vipassana, then I must have slept or may be senseless and should have not noticed the shock of the recent Gujarat earthquake when I was doing the meditation in my home. So many people did not notice the shock even though they were fully awake.
For the fall of Budhism, one of the reasons is Budhism lost the practical ways to adopt to day-to-day life. Dhamma means way of life. But Dhamma became a religion.
Religion is the belief of supernatural mystic energy and to take the grace perform the rituals to pacify it. When the followers centered the Dhamma on Budha it lost its essence and became a religion. Dhamma should be centered on the man and man should be centered on Dhamma, both are interdependent.
If Babasaheb had survived a few more years and tested Vipassana as per his own technique, I have no doubt that he might have recommended it to all.
Test Vipassana by yourself. Don’t believe it. Belief is nothing but superstition.
Out of the 500 people doing the first Vipassana course, only 50 could continue their practice.
DV is a valuable fortnightly. Every space should be used judiciously. I could not confine the explanation to limited words because the question raised are of great value and should be answered elaborately to clear the dust.
In my view you are the greatest personality of our society. I have very high regards for you and words are not sufficient to express my feeling towards you. Mind it, I am not buttering you, it is not in our blood.
