The late Vipassana guru S N Goenka
In 1955, Satyanarayan Goenka was a successful businessman based in Burma. In his own words, fortune had sided with him and by the age of 31, he had already been the president of the Burmese Chamber of Commerce. It was at this time that he started contemplating what he could do to rid himself of the painful migraine attacks from which he had been suffering for 20 years.
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Goenka never charged a dime for the course, a policy, he reasoned, aimed at spreading knowledge and its benefits to all not making it a commodity that could be paid for and afforded only by those who have the money. He also remained certain that his path was but one of many to the truth, and therefore, worked to eradicate sectarian divisions based on fragile ideological differences.
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