SAMADHI
HERMITAGE
Retreat Center
and
MEDITATION
CAVE
Tapasyalaya [Sanskrit] means
"place of retreat for yoga and meditation". In its strict sense, the
root
"tapasya" refers to deep meditation and various austerities used by
yogis
for self-purification to acheive enlightenment and liberation. A
solitary
place is usually sought out for such an undisturbed meditation retreat.
The Samadhi Hermitage Retreat Center, and the Samadhi
Meditation Cave, located in mountainous foothills of
New Mexico,
provide opportunity for a meditation retreat in the style of tapasya...
not austere, but as a place of retreat for superb stillness, solitude,
yoga, meditation and refreshment of one's life...with undisturbed
continuity.
Fruit trees, grapes, berries, vegetable and flower gardens, and cactus
are interspersed with areas for sitting, walking, meditation &
yoga...
all to provide sanctity, serenity,
natural beauty, organic food, and mindfulness (the cactus).
Throughout history, saints, sages and yogis have gone to the mountains, the caves and the deserts for their meditation retreat. The deserts of New Mexico are high-elevation, within and surrounded by mountains, thus providing a superb climate (moderate in all seasons), clean air, stillness, beauty, and an incredible sense of personal expansion due to the expansive vistas. One truly expands as far as they see...literally and figuratively.
When one is in the Samadhi
Meditation Cave, they are within the womb of Mother
Earth;
when one exits the cave for
whatever reason, there is an unexplainable sensation of newness, of
"being
a visitor" to the external world, and of temporariness to our precious
presence on this planet earth. Dwelling in our inner self, as we have
been
doing in the cave, becomes a very viable sensation when we step out of
the cave.
A meditative and spiritual retreat
in New Mexico can be a life-affecting departure from the norms of one's
material and physical world.
The Samadhi Hermitage Retreat
Center, is like an oasis amongst the greater oasis of New Mexico;
and certainly a nice taste of
India and the spiritual gifts India has provided and dwelled in for
centuries.
Photos of various saints are
found throughout the hermitage...gazing in their eyes is a meditation
in
itself.
In addition to the Samadhi
Meditation Cave there are beautiful areas on the
property for
meditative contemplation,
including a flagstone yoga deck,
fruit orchard and a mesa hillside with canyon on the property adjacent
to us.
From
1985-1994, principal activities were the construction of all
facilities,
creation of the fruit orchard, charitable services in India & Sri
Lanka,
counseling (mostly by telephone), and peace work through mailings of
spiritual
and peace oriented writings. The 