Lord N​aṭarāja 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
In this series of talks, Sarah will take us to India where we learn with here more about the spiritual import of Hindu dance from a Traditional prespective. Inspired by the writings of Frithjof Schoun, particularly on sacred art, she will read a passage of her choice from Schoun's books where she will illustrate the main ideas of the text with the help of the dramatic art of ancient India, bringing into evidence the relationship between form and intellection in the sacred gestures and mudras of Hindu dance.
The beauty sensed coming from an artwork, must in some way awaken the recollection of our originary state of perfection, something which reminds us of the state of harmony, completeness, expansion and goodness. In this sense, the function of traditional art is to awaken the sense of the sacred through the correct form, revealing the esoterism of its symbols and becoming thus, a powerful means to reveal the consciousness of theophanies.
Be it painting the infinitude of the blue sky, sculpting the meditative semblance of a Bodhisattva or representing the rhythm of the ocean in a noble calligraphy, a perfect symbol always reveals a true aspect of Reality, transcending a mere naturalistic expression. In this way, traditional arts becomes an upaya, a provisional means to efficiently awaken the sense of archetypes…
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