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Dandapani’s Blog

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
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Jul 24, 2017

Your Spine, Your Center

The meditator’s goal, on the Hindu spiritual path of Raja Yoga, is to first become aware of energy and then to familiarize himself with it. Next he learns to harness this energy so it does not all flow out of him. Once this is done, his task is to withdraw this energy. As he withdraws this energy, he needs to draw it into and concentrate it in a central location. That central location is the spine...

Jul 24, 2017 Podcasts & Videos

Life and Energy

Your life is a manifestation of where you put your energy. Wherever you put your energy in your life, that’s what starts to manifest in your life. The people around you, the things around you, the opportunities around you — they are all a manifestation of where you are investing
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Jul 19, 2017 Reflections

Choose where your energy flows

Reflection for this weekend: “By wisely discriminating where our energy flows, we can with the powers of concentration channel our energies to specific areas in our lives that we want to cultivate.” ~ Dandapani Photo: Kulaniapia Falls on the Big Island in Hawaii. Breathtaking i
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Jul 18, 2017 Conversations on the Spiritual Path

How To Work With Guilt

One of the things to cultivate on the spiritual path is self-acceptance. Right this moment, you are the sum total of many, many incarnations. It took hundreds of years, maybe even thousands of years, to bring you to this very moment so you have to be forgiving of yourself for you
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Jul 18, 2017 Photography & Travel

A Day in the Floating City

I hope to share with you, once or twice a month, one of my passions -- photography. I believe it's so important to make time in life for what you love and who you love. I love photography and always do my best to integrate it into my travels around the world. I'm currently in Ita
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Jul 16, 2017 Awareness & the Mind

Technology and Concentration

I’ve seen and heard many people hold up their smartphones and say, “These things are ruining our lives.” I beg to disagree. Smartphones are not ruining our lives. They are wonderful devices with great capabilities. What is ruining your life is your inability to exercise disciplin
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Jul 14, 2017 Costa Rica Spiritual Sanctuary

Siva Ashram Update - April 2017 Part 2

This is Part 2 of our April 2017 update on the work that we are doing to develop Siva Ashram in Costa Rica. If you missed the Part 1 update, you can read and watch the video here. After our friends Nick and Tracey left, another set of friends arrived. Jeremy, Jasmine and their da
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