Pragati Baburao Prabhe

I have done MA from Pali and work as Visiting Faculty in Pali Department. I think my spiritual journey started because of my spiritual interest since childhood. Because there were many questions in my mind. Who am I? Why am I like this? How can we see with our eyes, How can we hear, Why do I have ears, nose, eyes, other organs, How do thoughts come, What is nature, Why are these animals like that, How do birds fly Why are we? Can't do that. With many such questions, who was the Buddha, why do we take Pancha Shila, what does it mean? Trying to get an answer from the family, but the mind was saying that there is much beyond this. So, I read Buddha and His Dhamma, read Milind Panha. And thought the Buddha has said a lot that we don't know.

In 2009, when I did the first 10-day course at Vipassana, I thought that I would get the right answers from here, so I started learning Pali language. Now I started getting answers to my questions through study, but the experience was still not what I wanted.

In 2021, I took an online 10 days metta meditation course from venerable sister Khema and venerable Bhante Dhammagavesi, from where my spiritual journey took a different turn. In this online retreat I will actually experience what Sati Sampajanya is all about. I never thought online meditation could be like this. And my approach to meditation changed.

I began to know what the mind was like, how it worked, and how the mind should be used. How to increase the good things in yourself, how to remove the bad things

I was able to learn this from 6 R. I could actually experience the answers to many questions related to my existence, at the same time the perspective of others changed, it became easier to understand the feelings of others along with my own nature.

As told by the sages, one could feel how Dhamma exists in every particle of creation. While working, talking, thinking, walking, sitting, getting up, eating, sleeping, overall I understood how to meditate. Just as important as the number of times you sit in meditation is knowing how to do each moment after rising from meditation. Although online meditation, I could feel my progress in meditation as I followed the instructions given by venerable Bhante Dhmmagavesi and venerable sister Khema properly.

And the offline retreats just now started getting deeper answers and the metta meditation roots can be experienced with a lot of learning. And many questions will be answered in my path of Dhamma.

I express my gratitude to Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha as well as venerable Bhante Vimalaramsi, Venerable Bhante Dhammagavesi, Venerable sister Khema, Venerable Bhante Anand, Venerable Bhante Mettananda, and Delson Sir, Goenka Guruji, and all the pathfinders for this right guidance.

Thank you,