10 days in Vipassana Meditation Kanpur

So What is this Vipassana?
Answer:- Vipassana, it means to see things as they really are, it is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation and It was re-discovered by Gautam Buddha more than 2500 years ago & was taught by him as a universal remedy for universal ills

To Know More 
click on this link:- https://www.dhamma.org/en/about/vipassana

First time i heard vipassana when i hosted my first international guest from spain his name was Joan Pol Mingot. he came to my city "kanpur"  to do 10 days vipassana meditation course because for this course you have to book your seat online and every vipassana center in india has its own website so joan got his booking in kanpur so only for this purpose he came to kanpur.

As i belong to pure hindu bramhin family and we dont eat or touch non-vegetarian food not even eggs so i remember this memory Before Joan went to Vipassana. Me and Joan we are having discussion on life. I asked him this question that do you think that we really need to kill animals and eat them why cant we grow enough food for everyone to eat because humans are capable of growing. So he gave me answer which generally every non-veg eater will give you but after when he came back from vipassana and i asked him again this question & so he  replied then "Now i need to think on this" he was not sure what to say.
Then For the First time I thought that I will do vipassana one day to know what they are teaching in vipassana.

So finally i booked my seat for 10 days meditation in vipassana for date 20/january/2017

First Day In Vipassana

I arrived the centre at 3.00 pm on my bike with my 10 day backpack and necessary documents.

Center is approximately 30 Km away from my home in the outer part of my city.

at first you have to go office and fill an offiline form if your details attaching one photograph showing your ID proof then you have to submit your mobile phone and money purse whatever precious things you have at the end of the course they will return you all don,t worry.

then they will allot you a room & you have to collect your blanket, pillow, a bedsheet from office and then move ahead to your room

Submitted my mobile phone and money in office came to my room and now ready for this 10 days adventure full of Excitement so many thoughts was running on my mind like now whats gonna happen? can i finish this 10 days? 

they told me it is going to be start at 6.30 pm after our welcome tea & snacks which is from 6.00 pm to 6.30pm after having evening tea we all gone to dhamma meditation hall for one hour guided audio meditation 

then from 7.30pm to 8.30 pm guru ji teacher late Goenka ji gives spiritual lecture through  previously recorded DVD cassettes.
First Day Goenka Ji spiritual talk he welcomed us all and told us the procedure and the rules and regulations we have to follow for next 10 days. We all have to work hard very seriously from early morning of next day with goal of learning vipassana meditation technique.

so this is our daily schedule from day 2 given in image below

So I thought in my mind when i am going to stay in this place for next 10 days why not to follow their rules and do the work honestly with my 100% effort so I decided that i will do whatever they will say so i started following their guided audio instruction sitting in dhamma hall trying to focus on my breath but in the starting days every time i try to focus on the air going inside my nose any random thought came and distract me doing it but i was trying hard to do it again and again.

Second Day

Third Day

Fourth Day

Fifth Day

Nothing was happening everyday doing meditation for more than 6 hours and there is no sign of any benefit but on my Sixth Day when Goenka Ji said now feel something on skin above your nose focus their when i done that i got a very light sensation of electric current or some kind of itchy vibration cant say what that feeling was but i got it for the first time i was happy that  finally something is happening then Goenka JI said now focus on your head then face then shoulder then hands and this is how focus on your each body part from top to bottom

So when i started focusing on each body part i got the same sensation in my each and every body part and after few minutes a kind of electric current or itchy vibration was running in my body from top to bottom, I can not explain but that moment was awesome, I was feeling so good & at that time there was no thought in my mind not a single thought.
I opened my eyes and i can see everyone sitting doing meditation but i can see everyone but not a single thought even if i want to think something, I guess that was also not possible but that was true feeling of happiness without any reason and anyone can sit for infinite hours if he/she reached that state.

So from sixth day i developed more trust and faith on their teaching and devoted myself more on meditation even when we have to go our room for rest in my rest time i was also doing vipassana meditation laying down on my bed a funny thing - being a medical student with scientific mind thought that i got sensation on my skin and now the next level is i will get sensation on my bones
so intentionally i was trying to focus on my bones trying to generate sensation their but nothing was happening because in vipassana they say from the beginning that this is not your imagination this is reality which you are feeling this is not illusion  or hallucination so on 7th day when i was doing vipassana meditation during my rest time in my room on my bed at one point i felt warmness in my body parts where ever i am focusing i was confused what is this ? later on i found ohh this is my blood running in my body oh yes i can feel it then i heard pumping sound of my heart giving blood to body then filling again i felt contraction and dilation of heart muscles. oh my god i can not imagine without an stethoscope a person can listen & feel his/her heartbeat so here i knew myself that this is not imagination or my illusion this is reality and this is possible for anyone.

According to Goenka Ji Dhamma Kalyana whatever reward or punishment we are getting in our life is depend on what sins and good work we have done in our past life there is nothing like miracle or magical according to him -we get what we deserve- their is always a reason behind everything

whatever situation you are in your life right now that situation exist because of two reason if situation is good you are getting a reward of  your karma/deed which you have done either on this life or your past life and if situation is bad then you are getting punishment of your karma/deed done in past life or this life this is first reason. second reason is god is giving you that situation so that you learn something from it and get an experience out of it.

these are those two reason which apply on everyone.

so what we all should do now? Answer:- it is very simple just do good work everyday and for good work you don,t need to do a great work even small work like feeding dogs, cows, birds any animal is a good deed/karma putting water in your terrace for the birds where ever you are going if you see a dog just give something to eat because animals can not express or say that they want food.

 nothing is permanent so just do good work everyday no matter how much bad situations you are facing in your life accept it as your punishment for something you have done you don,t know and just keep doing good karma/deeds everyday and one day you will see that you will start getting rewards in your life and then nothing will go wrong in your life. you will be happy always cheers!

Back to Vipassana meditation 7th day ---- So after feeling sensation on my skin then feeling my blood in body one thing was left to learn since the beginning vipassana started goenka ji was saying that when ever any thought is arising in your body a sensation also arises with it and whenever a thought arise in your mind that thought creates branches and you start thinking about it so when you will not create branches of that thought and when you just observe that thought with its sensation then both sensation and that thought goes away.

this is what i was not understanding from the beginning that how can a thought will arise with any sensation how is it possible and if i will observe that sensation then both thought and sensation will go away really? so confusing for you too i guess! 

8th Day 

9th Day 

so on 10th day in breakfast i have taken two cups of tea that day tea was strong and i guess quantity of ginger was much more compare to all days so after having tea when i came back to my room there is some burning sensation in my chest so again its so funny being a medical student i thought this burning sensation in my chest is may be because of that ginger tea but after some time i asked myself hey wait a second! is this burning sensation is a sensation lets observe it so at that time actually i was thinking about some bad memories of my life which creates pain and pain is also a sensation so i started doing vipassana meditation and i started observing that sensation then after some time that burning sensation slowly cools down completely and my chest became normal and I smiled and said to myself that "Yes i have learned it".

i still need to practice vipassana meditation because there are so many levels i still have to reach and complete because they say if you keep practicing vipassana then one day you will reach that level when anything you are going to feel in next moment you will know that before you feel for example you are going to be angry and anger will arise with his sensation so you will recognize sensation first and this is how you can handle situations and yourself everytime.

My Conclusion:- I can 80% believe what vipassana is teaching and their theory about life and incarnation ,past life, karma, reward, punishment because if you see current scenario of this world the people those who are rich famous and bad such as some politicians like rahul gandhi lol 

they have got this luxurious life because may be they have done great work in their past life 

why not every good struggling actor become famous?

why only few people get fame suddenly?

so i guess it may be possible that there is any existence of big karma/deed bank above in the skies  and its depend upon you which kind of deed you have to store in that bank because whatever action you will do it is noted down and store there and according to that you will get reward or punishment.

so from vipassana i realized that these people whom i am meeting in my life they all entered in my life from feb 2016 this all means something there is something i have to do in my this life which i don,t know at present i am doing good work everyday and i hope someday i will complete the purpose of my existence.

Thanks for reading this post. DrStrangeIndia

Nothing Happen in this World without a Reason

Me With Sir Biren Thapar From Lucknow

Mr.Biren Thapar from lucknow also a couch surfer there. He  was connected with me on couchsurfing since I joined it and he was there before me from past two years hosting in lucknow on his bunglow.
One Day He called me because there was one young boy came to his home from Paris, France and that young boy wanted to come Kanpur because he want to go Khajuraho from Kanpur. 
I accepted Mr.biren request and then Quentin Michael from paris, France came to my city.
I picked him from a place in my city.
later on in night we ate dinner together then we slept.
Next day in morning my mom and sister came from lucknow they both met him we enjoyed a lot whole day talking and making food.

then next day  saturday we decided to go me and Quentin to water park called as blue world in Kanpur. 

On Sunday morning I dropped him on khajuraho route because he wants to do hitch hike which  means to take lift from Kanpur to khajuraho I already told him about bus and train but he wants to go by hitch hiking. Before him I hosted other travellers too and they also did hitch hiking from my city so I thought Quentin can also do it and reach khajuraho but nobody knows what is going to happen so I dropped him and came back home around 10 in morning 

I got a message in my facebook around 12 that hey this is me Quentin I was robbed send me your number I am in police station they want to call u.

I was shocked and surprised oh my god what just happen! 

Then I sended him my number, talked to police, gone there & took him with all officers to actual site where incident happened translating his English in hindi so everybody can understand.
Media interviewed me asking so many questions 

 Same day in night i met Kanpur SSP(Very High rank officier in police) so finally he understand this all couchsurfing. he was very good man.

He offered us tea and snacks and then he told us that who ever done this they will be caught for sure.

Later on next day again site location checkup in day time Kanpur police worked so hard

Third day sketch is made of two people driver and a man sitting inside

4^th day we gone to delhi in night we reached on 5^th day morning we gone to embassy and taken lasse passé a kind of passport document to leave india and then did all official work.

 I met my friends there in delhi then me my friends with Quentin gone to pubs, travelled a bit delhi and this time I stayed first time with two people in delhi through couchsurfing.

First with a young working boy Mayank  in gurgaon and then with a sweet family of Varun Pasari in model town delhi. Mayank and Varun family both are so welcoming and so nice and i love and will always remember them Varun,s mom is so supportive for him and his work god bless this family. and  a very well knows couchsurfer of delhi sir lokesh parashan came to meet us in varun,s home a very good soul he is truly a sheriff for all couchsurfers.

They all welcomed me very warmly and they are so happy to host as they know all incidence that I am helping Quentin on his journey so they offered us good food and everything so many people connected to us through couch surfing calling us and ready to help us anytime.

During this all journey Quentin in the starting on first day when he was robbed he was in fear  and dipressed feeling lost but slowly things time changed with so much positivity and positive incidences happened during this journey changed me as a whole and I guess him too from inside.

“Sometimes when u lost some thing you will get something which is more precious than whatever you lost”

I never imagined that in my city Kanpur people from more than 35 countries will come in my home to meet me to talk me to give me their time and  share their knowledge and experiences.

 it is also said that nothing happen in this world without a reason nothing is good or bad --

it,s your choice how you are feeling it. IF you are taking it as bad then you are feeling sad but you take it as a learning experience promising yourself that you will not do that mistake again you will feel happy and easily move forward.

That boy who was in 8^th class trying hard to connect world Finally Made it Cheers. (Read first post to understand this sentence) 

I was lost in this fake world but after meeting all these people in year 2016 it made me think who am I?  why all this happened with me?  

------- May be there is a reason of my birth this time on earth?  what that reason is and why I am here?

I got all my answers after doing Vipassana.  What is vipassana ? where it is tell you on my next post wait for it. 

Thanks for reading hope this inspires you. 

“Help others Achieve their dreams & you will achieve yours”

Spreading Love, Peace And Happiness  Around the World

This is Me Dr.Ketan Shukla  a simple common boy belongs from a middle class family born in Kanpur - a city in Uttar-pradesh province/region of India

“This story is all about a young boy who was trying to connect world since his childhood trying to know more & more about this world created by god different cultures since he was in 8^th standerd and one day finally his dream come true he actually found a way to connect to this world in real actual life and helped more than 25 countries people on his home and the most important incidence which happened is a French student who was robbed in his city on 22 august 2016 and then how he saved his life and helped him. Leaved his city gone all the way out to help him and successfully sended him back to his country france.”

This all begins in 2007 when I was in my 8^th Standerd School Time at that time I don’t have any mobile or Internet even I don’t even know what is internet.

I was studying in The model intermediate college a Christian English medium school thank god so atleast at that time I understand very basic English but was not able to speak fluently

So near to my home there was a computer café just newly opened so I was happy and  started going there learning to operate computer then playing games everyday on it enjoying a lot.

 One day I saw internet explorer icon and I clicked on it then it connects to internet & the first website I saw is Google.com then there I saw Images option clicked on it  so a search box came in front of me and then I typed something I don’t remember whats the first thing I typed there after typing I saw result few images and I was happy so as a child that time.

 I thought whatever I will type here so google.com will show me the true images of it and those images are ultimate truth and reality in this world 

 How funny I feel to remember all this so after that day I came to my home and now my interest is turning here from games to google.com images search thing.

Now everyday I am imagining and writing whatever comes in my mind for example I remember few things which I searched those days in the beginning like “Angel, Jinn, Ghost Photos, What is Inside Mecca & Medina, Heaven & Hell e.t.c” and so many crazy things. 

After doing this for some weeks one day I saw Yahoo Messenger and I made a account on it and soon I found a way to do video calling and then I remember I was connected to a random stranger from dubai he was from Pakistan and he and his brother living in a room on rent in dubai and working as a electrician there earning 2000 delhem per month I remember because it was my first chat I was so excited that day omg! I talked to a person who is sitting in dubai wow amazing feeling blessed kind of now it seems funny to read this but later on so many people I chat then from Egypt,UK and so on.

Then finally I joined orkut after that and I made a good friend there her name was Julia Tshay and she was from brazil she was sending me messages in orkut messeges are called as “scrap”

So she was sending me scrap in Portuguese language so I was use to convert her messages first of all using google translator and then reading it and then converting my bad English in Portuguese and sending her everyday we talked almost 1 and half year shared so much talk regarding lifestyle there and here in india.

Then finally facebook came and orkut was closed so I came on facebook since then I was in facebook till now.

After completing my 12^th standerd from Kanpur from  the same school where I studied from nursery to 12^th. My father sended me to Kota, rajasthan for one year to prepare for medical entrance exams I went there.

 On Month November my mom and sister came to visit me so we decided to go and see a fort there in kota on Sunday and unfortunately when we gone there fort was closed that day so I saw a German girl was standing there I was feeling fear and shy to talk her but from inside I was dying to talk her because its going to be first time live intraction to a foreigner whos skin colour thoughts voice accent culture parenting eating everything is so so different from us so 

I  requested my sister to go and to start converstation

So my sister moved and she started talking her soon after I also joined conversation and then later on we all decided to go together in auto to visit city mall and then I was happy because now I can ask her some more questions to her then we gone in city mall in macdonalds we ordered and I paid the bill and then she told us she came from Udaipur to kota just to see fort and her bus back to Udaipur is in evening so I suggested her to come and stay in my hostel with my mom and sister for few more hour she accepted our offer and we all gone back to our hostel and there in my room she showed me photos of her camera and her room and we talked a lot. ----- this all happening in year 2012 in winters

Now here the thing come from 2012 which changed my life in 2016 she that german girl told me about “ couchsurfing “

I asked what is couchsurfing she told me that through this website you can host international travelers on your place if u have space. I joined that website that day made account but later on I thought it may be not working in india or I thought it is not useful.

So there I got to know about this website and I never knew this is going to change my life in 2016.

After coming from Kota, rajasthan back to my city Kanpur in 2013 without wasting time when I knew my result is not going to be good because I am not that much super intelligent 

I researched a lot that what I have to do in my life so I can not blame anyone else whatever I will do I will do with my wish after researching BAMS, BHMS, BDS, BUMS

 I found BPT and I researched about it a lot opportunities around the world  I joined Kanpur university and got admission in bachelor of physiotherapy { BPT }  since then I am here and 2013, 2014,2015 in all these years I was using internet a  lot still connecting to people of my area physiotherapist around the world and gathering information increasing my knowledge of scope of my Field around the world 

So finally 2016 again I saw couchsurfing advertisement in internet somewhere and I joined it again but this time I downloaded its application but again I thought it will not work who is going to come in Kanpur city here is nothing to see.

"But you should know one thing if you have very extreme desire for something in your heart god knows and he will give you opportunity to full fill your desire"

I got first message from a international traveler guy from Barcelona, Spain his name was joan pol mingot he was coming Kanpur because he want to do 10 days meditation course in dhamma kalyana vipassana meditation centre in Kanpur.

I was in 7^th cloud I was so happy that wow now I found someone I will ask him infinite questions I will take his advice I will learn as much I can from him and yes I got the right guy

He arrived in night me and my friend picked him from a place he came to my home finally

Then we have dinner and then I asked him about his journey.

He told me he is travelling world with almost no money so he told me so many things which shocked and surprised me and boost up my knowledge and opened so many new doors in my mind he was my biggest inspiration he was my guru god sended him to me so many things so many stories of him which I can not write here because it will take so many pages

Then next day he gone to vipassana for 10 days during these 10days I hosted one Japanese guy and then on 9^th and 10^th day a couple bicyclist from new Zealand and Poland came they surprised me because they are travelling world with bicycle.

All these things are so suprising & a Magical story kind of for me.

 They stayed  on 9^th 10^th day on 10^th day joan pol mingot came back from vipassana with two more people one boy name cem simsek from turkey and one girl from Taiwan so that day people from 5 countries are sitting in my hall and I was feeling like awesome

So this is how journey started and then one after one I hosted so many people and will continue it till the end of my life

Hosting people from Different countries Different Genders  Different colours Hosting Indians too changed and developed me a lot from inside then one day an incident happened which made me famous all around the city I was in every news paper of my city something happened what I have done?-- wait for my next post