Lord Naṭarāja the Cosmic Dancer - by Sarah Magalhães
In this episode Sarah will explain some of the symbolic meanings behind
the iconography of Lord Shiva Nataraj, the cosmic dancer which
simultaneously portrays the fluidity of this continuous movement of
existence reverberating within the stillness of Consciousness. Then she
will allude some of the meanings behind the dancing of the cosmic
creation with the five divine activities or the five-fold dances in
which they are paradoxically temporal and timeless. Finally, with Sarah,
we will be introduced transforming power of life; Tāṇḍava and the
non-dual Kashmir Shivaism tradition where they consider the Heart of
Shiva to be in a state of perpetual movement.
“His form is everywhere, all-pervading in His Shiva-Shakti. Chidambaram
is everywhere. As Shiva is all and omnipresent, everywhere is Shiva’s
gracious dance made manifest. By His Grace, his five-fold dances are
temporal and timeless. This is the sacred dance of Uma-Sahaya. He dances
with Water, Fire, Wind and Ether. Thus, our Lord dances ever in the
court. Visible to those who pass over Māyā and Mahāmāyā (illusion and
super-illusion), Our Lord dances, His eternal dance” Ananda Coomaraswamy.
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