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