Q: I have learned vipassana, but I am unable to practice it effectively. I am not sure why. Is it that I am doing it wrong, is it a wrong technique for me?🔗

Neither are you doing it wrong nor is it the wrong technique for you. First, you should have experienced the psychological revolution, clarity about you, world, and god. Then, the technique should have been added to you. Without that clarity, if the technique is directly added it leads to boredom, dullness, and naturally, you drop the technique.

I always tell people: any study, any journey you undertake, any book you start reading even if you don't understand a single word, do not skip. If you don't understand and skip, slowly you will see that words which you did not understand will become more and more like a load, and your very interest in reading further will disappear.

In the same way, in the inner journey, without going through the psychological revolution or the understanding, if you just skip the understandings and enter into the meditation technique, it is a problem.

Even when I speak and explain the concepts, I have seen many people sitting and thinking, 'What you are telling is fine; now let us go to the technique, Swamiji.' I have seen people telling me, 'I understand, Swamiji; let us go to the technique.' They think they are very intelligent. They think straightaway the technique can help.

Technique is not an allopathic pill. You need a clear prior understanding because the understanding starts the churning. Then the technique is like an addition for the alchemy process to occur.