Why Meditate?

In the Summer of 2010, Goenkaji, the principle teacher of Vipassana Meditation, spoke at the "Millennium World Peace Summit" at the United Nations World Headquarters in New York.

"I do not wish to convert people from one organized religion to another; I have no interest in any of these organized religions. My interests is in the truth, the teachings of all Englightened Ones. But conversion is involved: from misery to happiness, from defilement to purity from bondage to liberation, from ignorance to enlightenment."

-S.N.Goenka