The Part of You That Never Dies
The essence of you is pure energy, and since energy can be neither created nor destroyed, that part of you has always existed and always will.
Dandapani says what drove him to the monastery was looking for the one constant in life, and what he found was that we are pure energy, which by the law of thermodynamics was never created and cannot be destroyed. He argues the same energy is in everyone, which is why no one is lesser, and that experiencing it requires turning inward rather than outsourcing your body to devices, and committing to one practice long enough to gain mastery.
What this talk covers
- School, a job, a family, growing old and dying seemed unfulfilling to him on its own, and the search for the one constant that does not end is what took him to the monastery.
- What he found is that we are essentially pure energy, and since energy cannot be created or destroyed, something in him is everlasting purely from a physics point of view.
- The same energy is in you, in him and in everything else, which makes everyone divine and means no one is lesser, whatever society says about who has money.
- That energy is subtle rather than tangible, and we are trained to rely on exterior things, letting a ring tell us how we slept and an app tell us we are stressed, instead of feeling our own nervous system.
- Experiencing it is layered rather than binary, and depends on committing to one practice rather than eating off the spiritual buffet table, because you will never gain mastery if you do not pick one and repeat it.
We also live in a world that people are committed to not being committed, and terrified to commit to one practice.Dandapani
Questions
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He says yes, and reasons it from physics. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. If the essence of you is energy, then when the body dies there is a soul inside that is pure energy and does not die.
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Because mastery comes from repetition. He describes people eating off the spiritual buffet table, a little ayahuasca, a little meditation, a little Kundalini yoga, assembled into a spiritual salad. The traditional approach is to define the goal, define the path, pick the tools, and then practise and repeat.
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They train you to rely on exterior things to tell you how you slept or whether you are stressed. There were cultures so in tune with their nervous systems that they knew intuitively which root or bark had healing properties, and that sensitivity is what devices replace.
Transcript
863 words · 4:55
What is the one thing in life that is the constant that doesn't end? People we love, we know, they die. So is that what we're here on this planet to do, is just go through this motion of going to school and graduating, getting a job, having a family and watching kids grow
up and then they leave and then you get old and then you die. Seemed a little bit unfulfilling. Not saying there's not beauty in it. There must be something more.
So the seeking of trying to find the one constant in life was what really drove me to the monastery to find that. And what did you find? That we are essentially pure energy, and energy is in all things, which is science. Law of thermodynamics says its energy cannot be created or destroyed.
So if I'm energy, and the essence of me is energy, and that energy was never created, nor can it be destroyed. So there's something that is in me that is everlasting. just purely from a physics point of view. So how can I go in and experience that?
And law of thermodynamics also states that energy can be transformed from one form to another. So if my body dies, is there a soul inside that is pure energy that essentially doesn't die?
How can I experience that? And to me, that was worth pursuing to know that I've always existed, because energy has always existed.
And you will always exist. And I will always exist. And that's so beautiful. And the same energy that's in me is in you, in everything else, which makes us all divine
and allows me then to respect you and treat you with respect and love and compassion because you are divinity. There's no one person that's lesser because that same energy is all pervasive. Right.
But society says he with money is greater than and he without money is less than. But in reality, what you discovered is we're all just one. Well, just one. Yes, and we have to go inside to experience that in a very subtle, profound way.
It's not so tangible, right? Like this cap that I can pick up and feel, that energy is subtle. And we live in a world that's training us to rely on exterior things to tell us how we feel.
And like people will wear a ring, you know, wake up in the morning and the ring will tell them how they slept. want to ask yourself how you slept, want to feel your nervous system. Everything is app-based. The app will tell me if my heart's beating too fast, if I'm stressed, or this or that.
But there was a time in society, in so many different cultures, that people were so in tune with their nervous system and with the world around them, that they could discover this root has a healing property. This bark could do this. You can look at Chinese medicine, and the medicine that came out of India and things like that.
How did they know these things? It's not like someone was sick and walked around the forest and chewed on box and roots until they found the right one. They intuitively knew through their nervous system.
So if we could train ourselves without using devices to really get in touch with our body, our nervous system, our mind, we would really start to understand and feel that energy inside of us, which has always existed
and will always exist. How long did it take you to discover that, that energy inside of you? It's not a binary experience, like a light switch that comes on and off. Right.
So I would, I always describe it as layers. Like I can step out here, uh, and feel the sun's rays. If I got on a spacecraft and traveled towards the sun, I would feel the intensity of the sun more and more.
So I would say as you go within, you will start to feel the fringes of you being an energetic being, and as you go deeper, you would feel a lot more of it. So I would say, depending on how much you desire to and your dedication to the practice, and sticking with one practice.
We also live in a world that people are committed to not being committed, and terrified to commit to one practice. They love to eat off the spiritual buffet table. You know, I'll do a little bit of ayahuasca, I'll do a little bit of meditation,
little Kundalini yoga, a little this, a little that, put it all together in some kind of spiritual salad and hopefully it'll take me where I want to go. And the more traditional paths is, you know, you define the goal, you define the path, you identify the tools that will help you get there, and then it comes down to practice,
repetition and mastery, you know, and not just perpetually shopping. Not saying that any of these tools I'm saying are bad. You will never gain mastery if you don't pick one and repeat it.