Mark of a Master

This is completely unusual. Every other guru has followers chasing him. If he gets off a plane, cars pull up to receive him like a minister.
A teacher should not be made an idol, like a god. He is a teacher. If you want to get any help, you practice what is being taught, that’s all. 

S.N. Goenke; You have to work out your own salvation..

Speech By S N Goenka in U.N. Peace Summit 


the more deeply and subtly the manner in which the listener understands the words "know yourself",  the more this speech will mean to him when he hears it.

We have to learn to observe within as to what is our mental and emotional state of our psyche, and then we have to do away with the stress and become harmless and benevolent. Only then will world peace come to us.
Vipassana is one of the ways in which to do this.