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Dandapani’s Blog

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
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Mar 27, 2020

A Simple Morning Practice

Greetings from New York City. I hope this message finds you healthy, staying safe and more importantly, staying home. During this quarantine, which many of us around the world are experiencing, it is vitally important to maintain our mental health (along with our physical health). Routines are one of the best things that you can create at a time like this. Routines calm the instinctive mind whic...

Mar 23, 2020 Insights on Life

An opportunity for a great many things

As cities around the world enforce a quarantine and many people are encouraged or forced to stay home, we need to look at this situation as an opportunity rather than a challenge. This is not to say that these are not challenging times but if we can shift our perspective we can s
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Mar 20, 2020 Insights on Life

Where do we start with COVID-19?

Where do you, as a person, start with dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic? When a situation like the pandemic we have now arises it is easy to experience a myriad of emotions. These emotions are usually not positive and prolonged indulgence in them only leads to a downward spir
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Mar 12, 2020 Photography & Travel

Joyous Children

Today I thought I’d share some images that I photographed of smiling and laughing children during my many travels to India. These pictures remind me of my favorite quote from my guru, Gurudeva Subramuniyaswami: “Life is meant to be lived joyously.” Whether you are going through a
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Mar 9, 2020 Awareness & the Mind

Do you know who is in charge of your awareness?

Most people unknowingly give people and things around them permission to move their awareness from one area of the mind to another all day every day.You can think of this like the same way you give a director of a movie permission to move your awareness all around the mind while
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Dec 27, 2019 News

Did you fulfill your 2019 goals?

As we come to the end of the year I always like looking back and reflecting on how it went. So many people set resolutions at the start of the year and by the end of the year, they don’t even remember what the resolutions were nor have they even come close to achieving any of the
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Oct 11, 2019 Insights on Life

How badly do you want it?

To want to create a change in your life you must really want it. You must really, really want it. The truth is, most people are never able to create the lives they want because they don’t want it badly enough. They desire it, but that’s as far as it goes and their efforts fal
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