Goenka (U Ba Khin) · Residential centre
Dhamma Sota
Rahaka village, Sohna, Haryana, India · Also called Vipassana Sadhana Sansthan
Dhamma Sota ('Stream of Dhamma') serves the Delhi region from Rahaka village near Sohna in Haryana, about 70 km from New Delhi railway station, on 16 acres surrounded by the green valleys of the Aravalli hills. dhamma.org gives 2000 as the year it was established and 2002 as the year of its first course. It accommodates 120 meditators (72 men and 48 women), all in single rooms, some with attached bathrooms and some with shared ones; the meditation hall holds 125 students and the pagoda has 108 cells. The centre is about 1 km from the Nimmod police post on the Sohna-Ballabhgarh road and can be reached by bus from Ballabhgarh, which has a metro station on Delhi's Violet Line. Its administrative office, Vipassana Sadhana Sansthan, is at Nehru Place, New Delhi.
How to apply
Apply online through the centre's page on dhamma.org (in Nepal, start from np.dhamma.org). New students must first complete a 10-day course, and there is no charge.
What is taught here
Donation-funded 10-day courses taught with S. N. Goenka's recorded instructions, in the line of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, at centres in Nepal and worldwide. Read about Goenka (U Ba Khin).
Sources
- sota.dhamma.org/en/directions/
- dhamma.org/en/locations/directory#sota
- dhamma.org/en/schedules/schsota
- dhamma.org/en/maps#sota
- sota.dhamma.org/
- sota.dhamma.org
Details checked 28 Sept 2026. Course dates, rules and contacts change: confirm on the centre’s own site.
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