Tuesday, January 18, 2011

shiva nataraja.


This cosmic dance of Shiva is called 'Anandatandava,' meaning the Dance of Bliss, and symbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, as well as the daily rhythm of birth and death. The dance is a pictorial allegory of the five principle manifestations of eternal energy — creation, destruction, preservation, salvation, and illusion.

...it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomena.

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