# Importance of Saṅghadāna in English by Goenka ji - Bodh Gaya, February 23, 2001 ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Vipassana Meditation - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N31SIyO8XN8 ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N31SIyO8XN8) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) The purpose of this sadana one thing quite obvious that here are the people who left the householder's life all the comforts of the householders life they left it they don't have any household of their own. There is nobody to cook their food for them. It is the responsibility of every householder to look after their necessities. We are householders. Therefore, it becomes a responsibility, a duty of ours to look after their basic requirements. Another very important thing for which we are so grateful to the SA, we are so respect for the SA is that our country where Dharma originated. It could get benefit of dharma, the practical aspect of dharma, theatibi just for about 500 years. Within 500 years the technique of aashna was lost from this country. Totally gone. A few people here and there might have been practicing but for the masses it was gone. It went to different countries neighboring countries. Some of them maintained the parati the words of Buddha as it as they got it from here. And one country my motherland where I was born and brought up they maintained this vipasha also from teacher to pupil in its pristine purity. If they had not done so I see for myself how would I got it the whole life would have been dark for me with all the misery. such a miserable person when I came in contact with the words of Buddha that alone didn't help me totally it just gave me inspiration but the technique of the practical aspect of Buddha's teaching theati when I passed through that the whole life started changing what a great boon if it was just for me that I got this benefit then perhaps People will say some miracle happened for you. No miracle. Everyone has to work. Somebody guided me. I worked. I got the benefit. Now tens of thousands of people around the world they practicing this wonderful technique getting the same result. So everyone who is a vipna meditator feels so grateful. Grateful to Buddha. Countless lives he kept on accumulating paritas paras and then in the last life he got enlightened here. This enlightenment was not for only his liberation. He got liberated. He got this sama sambodi for the good of others for the benefit of others. Whole life the rest 45 years of his life kept on serving people day and night kept on serving people. They are so grateful to him. They are so respect for him. And then after that from teacher to pupil, from teacher to pupil how they maintain maintained the teaching in his Christian purity both parati as well as paripati 500 years. We are so grateful to them. It was sa maintained and then in many countries the parati was maintained. In the neighboring country the patipati in mama the pipati was maintained centuries for centuries to maintain it in its pristine purity without any addition without any subtraction is a wonderful responsibility that they had taken. I just see for myself if it was lost or if it got polluted, the purity was lost, how would I have got benefited from it? Personally, I feel so grateful, so grateful. And not only me, tens of thousands of people around the world who are practicing it. They find it so rational, so logical, so pragmatic, so scientific, so non sectarian and so resultoriented. ### [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N31SIyO8XN8&t=300s) Segment 2 (05:00 - 05:00) People get benefit. Those who practice, they get benefit. No magic, no miracle. Buddha shows the path and we want us to walk over the path. You have to work out your own salvation. The enlightened ones will only show the path. Everyone works and gets benefit. But how to work? If the technique is lost, then how to work? People won't get the right way, the right method of liberation. And all this happened because this SA maintained this purity, purity of the technique, purity of the words of Buddha. We are really so grateful, so grateful. --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/34191*