Nidhidhyāsana

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

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

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

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

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

Endless questions… but no answers would ever satisfy. Without convincing answers, the questions will only get bigger. In many of the manifestations in the physical realm, scientific explanations are mostly meaningless, surface-level answers rather than deep-level clarity, not at the experiential level, and the mystery remains!

"What is death? If death happens 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 the 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 for 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 one's 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-realisation is not really too far. The purpose of this human 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 and die. It does numerous acts to fix the stick and sit up. But the more the parrot tries, the more it agonises and fears. In all this fear and frustration, it completely forgets that it has wings and can fly. For a bird, there’s absolutely no question of falling. This imaginary fear, binding & clinging are the causes of human misery too.