Nidhidhyāsana literally means Self-enquiry, which helps in the Self-abidance. The prolonged Self abidance and Self absorption leads one to the Self Realization. Our Silent Retreats let you ask these existential questions:

 

• Every day the sun rises, crosses the sky, and sets; what & who creates this illusion, why do we perceive this way? And why, we don’t feel the Earth’s rotation?

• Why does a mountain or a tree appear big and becomes smaller as we move farther? What’s the actual size of the mountain or the tree that our eyes see? In real, is mountain big or small?

• What happens when we die, will this reality of sea, mountain, sun and moon, universe etc., still be there? Or these exist, only as long as we live and exist?

• What is a dream, how emotions play and are so real in the dream? Fact is that our body is at rest, on the bed; how come motion, senses, space everything happen? From where the light is being projected within the dream? What’s the reality anyway?

 

Endless questions… but no answers would ever satisfy you. Without convincing answers, the questions only will get bigger. In many of the physical realm's manifestations, scientific explanations were mostly meaningless surface level answers than deep level. Not at experiential level, and the mystery remains!

 

"What is death? If death will happen for everyone, why do I run around like a mad dog… What’s the truth, what are we running after really?"

 

Our Silent Retreat will leave its trail and lay foundation on Sri Ramana Maharishi's  “Who Am I?” teaching. You will gain the knowledge of Self-enquiry and Advaita Vedanta (Non-duality).

 

It's our wish that, Nidhidhyāsana be a tremendous possibility to people with spiritual fire & longing. Certainly there are many forms of meditation in the world, however, most of them are mind-based. Most of them use the mind to transcend the mind. But with Nidhidhyāsana, it is all about Self enquiry with Self-attention and Self-abidance, which in turn, helps in uprooting the mind from its very-illusory existence.

 

In brief, by attending Nidhidhyāsana silent retreats, one discovers the Self and learns to enquire the Self with the “Who am I?” question. When one succeeds in this Self-enquiry, that naturally bestows them the Self-abidance - Resting your-self in the Self. Once the seeker is established in this Self-abidance, even nature cannot deny the Truth and must reveal It-Self. For this seeker, Self-realization is not really too far. The purpose of this birth is justified by realizing the Self. By realizing the Truth, we put an end to all suffering.

 

If Truth is really true, then it should be simple and must be available right here & right now, and to everyone - irrespective of age, caste and creed. And, that's what Nidhidhyāsana silence retreat is all about. Once the illusory shackles are broken, what shines forth is our ever-existing True-Self.

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Mystic Kabir poetically says, "drop the fear and bondage and you’re set free"

 

“O parrot… hanging upside down, who’s holding you?” - the hunters who capture parrots, first tie a rope between two trees. Along the rope, they fix small sticks. As the parrots land on these sticks, the sticks turn upside down because of their weight. Parrots hang in that upside-down position. The hanging parrot is afraid to let go of the stick, fearing that it may fall down and die. It does numerous acts to fix and sit up. But the more he tries, the more he agonizes and fears. In all this fear and frustration, he completely forgets that he has wings and that he can fly. For a bird, there’s absolutely no question of falling down. This imaginary fear, binding & clinging are the causes of human misery too.