An interesting guest: SN Goenka hosts the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rangoon

In telling [Goenka’s] story of the Maharishi’s visit to Rangoon, he made sure to point out that he hosted the great meditation teacher primarily for the sake of his family, so that they might be initiated into a form of meditation that was acceptable for them as Hindus. He noted that though they had seen a great positive change in him as a result of his practice of vipaśyanā, “no member of my family was yet ready to go to a vipaśyanā course.”

An excerpt from Daniel Stuart’s S. N. Goenka: Emissary of Insight (Lives of the Masters), describing the time that Goenka hosted the famous Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his family home. Future posts here will look more deeply into this work, and we hope to have Daniel on the Insight Myanmar Podcast as well to discuss his new book.