Dhamma Sota (Sohna) - Meditation center in Rahaka - Gurugram, India

Beautiful Experience. Peaceful Environment. Learned so many things about life, reality, Dharma, and meditation. Everyone should once in a lifetime. Whatever you do here do for a reason nothing is blind faith everything has a scientific or logical explanation.

Best Place to Meditate and Know the truth. Here anyone can apply to join 10 days Vipassana Retreat. It's a quiet peaceful & beautiful place with lush greenery. Vipassana is the best Meditation Technique of Buddha. Sevak are nice, the management is good and the staff is co-operative. Thanks to Dhamma Sota.

I had one of the best 10 days of my life here. The ambience was very calm and quiet. Just the environment here will make you relaxed. There are lots of friendly peacocks in this lush, green campus. The facilities they provide are really good. The food was really good and of very good quality. The management is also very efficient and proactive. The property is very beautiful and well maintained. The management really deserves appreciation for that. People of any religion or race won't feel out of place here. Everyone is equal inside here. It is better to come during the beginning and end of winter. Otherwise it will be very hot.

Very peaceful and quite beautiful place. The peacocks were a delight. The food was very tasty and nutritious. The dhamma discourses are pure words of wisdom. Explained well with examples and scientific approach, the knowledge resonates quite well. The benefits of the practice can surely be realised if one is even a little bit sincere and aware. Very useful in practical life, it surely teaches the art of living, and can potentially improve the quality of life beyond measures.

Life is incomplete without VIPASSNA... Ultimate experience to resolve your pain without any doctor, medicines or any other things. I am blessed and glad to spreading the awareness about VIPASSNA among people. VIPASSNA is the right path for everyone. sbkaa mNgl ho

This place runs Vipassana Courses which help you clear your mind focus your mind and calm down your mind but its not like any other meditation where you recite some mantras or words to calm down your mind. Its a pure focus on the current state of your mind and body without any artificial way to calm down your mind This may be benificial in the long run but in the short run i.e the first 3 days of the course specially for newer participants are very difficult because the mind is not able to look inwards. Total Active Time of the course per day is 12 hrs including 1.5 hrs of Discourse time and the rest meditation. It is not at all an easy task hence take your own call keeping in mind the same . Complete silence has to be maintained for all the days of the course. The facilites provided by the management are absolutely top notch. Separate rooms with attached bathrooms for all. The greenery outside the building is something very rare and soothing. I have never seen so many peacocks at any place ever like were found at this centre. I have had sightings of upto 20 peackocks in a single park. Cheap laundry services are also available. There is no charges for the course but you can make donations at the completion of the course if you so wish to. This free and selfless service is something the reason people come to do Vipassana courses which is difficult to be seen in today's times . All in all everything is wonderful but you should be prepared for a difficult path ahead.

Dhamma Sota is primarily a Vipassana Meditation Center run by the Vipassana Research Institute (Vipassana Sanshodhan Sansthan). VRI is headquartered in Igatpuri, Maharashtra. VRI has centers in most states in India and in several countries outside. Dhamma-Sota - The sota/srota/source/fountainhead of Dhamma - is located in Village Rahaka in Sohna Haryana. It is connected to Delhi via a Haryana Roadways bus to the Delhi Metro (violet line). It is about an hour's drive from Rajiv Chowk in Gurgaon. The facilities are spread over a vast area (16 acres?) and include meditation halls, residential quarters, and a pagoda. The rooms are basic but are single with attached baths. There is gender segregation. The food is simple but nutritious and delicious! The meditation hall has fans and ACs. It can seat about 100 meditators. The hall provides meditation cushions to everyone. One can also request a normal chair or a low meditation chair for back support. There is Noble Silence Arya Moun strictly requested for the 10 days. Dhamma Sevaks - Dhamma Servers/volunteers - keep day to day meditation operations running. There is an excellent laundry service with next day delivery. The routine is gruelling - wake up at 4am and then continue in some form of meditation activity till 9pm (with breaks of course). But most people adjust to it. On the day of arrival, one is requested to deposit mobile phone and valuables by 4pm. They are returned on the 10th day (And all madness/normalcy breaks loose again ). A well oiled machine, administratively. I understand Acharya Goenka ji began running shivirs from 1969. Take enough personal stuff to last you 11 days. You are not allowed outside the premises. Anyway there are mostly fields outside. For first timers - naye sadhak ne saadhk - it can be tough. The sitting, the body pains, the routine, the effort at meditation with a monkey mind. Try to stick with it. Talk to the Guruji and/or dhamma sevaks. They will try to help. As you will realize after ending silence on 10th day and talking to others, everyone faces challenges. But persistence has its rewards. Goenka ji's evening pravachans discourses are often helpful as he clarifies issues. You meet amazing people, some who help you view the experience with some humor too. The beautiful peacocks on campus and other flora and fauna will enchant your mind. Wishing mangalam best wishes and metta in everyone's journey and endeavors.

Best spiritual bootcamp I have experienced till date. The roadmap is logical, the pathway is hard but effective, and the tools and techniques are proven through centuries of bodhis. Teaches a 2500 year old ancient Bharat derived practical method to Nirvana. Pure high grade calculus. The center is conveniently located, abt 30 mins drive south of Sainik Colony, Faridabad. Clean and well maintained campus. Efficient+punctual+optimized management. Lots of open space+greenery+animals+birds+deep silence. Optimal living quarters for a bhikshu. Ideal conditions to cut off from all external noise and go deep inside to let the true knowledge signals rise. Strictly following the 5 sheels is key. Loved the experience and recommend very highly to clean old karma+understand how to practically action E=mc^2. 10d course was barely enough to calm the mind+experience dissolution. I guess 45d would be the real deep dive leading to solid grasp of the technique.