Meditation Retreat - The real truth

What is Meditation Retreat?
With so many common misconceptions about meditation
retreat, it might be better to clarify what meditation is NOT!

The process of attaining peaceful and healthy life involves three main elements

 Meditation Retreat, Kundalini Awakening, Yoga Retreat.This program is being organized
by a young rare living avatar, Swami Nithyananda.

Meditation is not relaxation. Relaxation is a natural process where the mind gets so tired 

of its own chatter that is just drops for a while.

Though this may be a good way to get a glimpse of the no-mind state, it is not valuable in

 itself.We can come back from relaxation with exactly the same problems and prejudices

 we had before. Meditation, on the other hand, is a continuous evolutionary process, each 

experience taking us to higher levels of awareness and understanding, clearing away the 

mental garbage of many lifetimes.

Meditation Retreat is not concentration. Concentration can certainly be an aid to meditation.

 In Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga, dharana (concentration) complements dhyana (meditation).

 But they are radically different processes. Concentration is effort, mind is effortlessness.

 Concentration is exclusive, meditation is inclusive. Concentration works with the mind,

 meditation is beyond the mind.

Meditation is not having supernormal experiences. The most common (wrong) idea about 

meditation retreat is that it involves seeing colors and light, hearing music and sensing the

 presence of Divine beings. While aspirants may have these experiences, they are not

 meditation. All experiences are of the mind, and meditation can happen only when 

you drop the mind!

Meditation is not an escape from Life. In fact, meditation is intimately connected with Life. Consciousness spiraling outward is Life. Life spiraling inward is meditation! Meditation

 retreat is the best and most practical coping mechanism for handling every situation of

 life with ease – including making money, managing relationships, handling stress or

 illness – and a thousand other things you wouldn’t dream of calling ‘spiritual’.