U - is the state of dreaming consciousness, together with its experience of subtle shapes of dream. 
A - is the state of waking consciousness, together with its world of gross experience. This mystical utterance stemming from the sacred language of Vedic praise and incantation, is understood as an expression and affirmation of the totality of creation. Still another allegorical meaning assigned to the halo of flames is that of the holy syllable of AUM or OM. Simultaneously it is said to signify the energy of Wisdom, the transcendental light of the knowledge of truth, dancing forth, from the personification of the All. This is said to signify the vital processes of the universe and its creatures, nature’s dance as moved by the dancing god within. Therein is release from the bondages of the world.Ī ring of flames and light ( prabha-mandala) issues from and encompasses the god. It is symbolical of life’s blindness, man’s ignorance. This is “Apasmara Purusha,” The Man or Demon ( purusha) called Forgetfulness, or Heedlessness ( apasmara). The divinity is represented as dancing on the postrate body of a dwarfish demon. The hand pointing to it is held in a pose imitative of the outstretched trunk or “hand of the elephant” ( gaja-hasta-mudra), reminding us of Ganesha, Shiva’s son, the Remover of Obstacles. It is to be worshipped for the attainment of union with the Absolute. This foot signifies Release, and is the refuge and salvation of the devotee. The “fear not” gesture ( abhaya-mudra), bestowing protection and peace, is displayed by the second right hand, while the remaining left lifted across the chest, points downward to the uplifted left foot. And the field of the terrible interplay is the Dancing Ground of the Universe, brilliant and horrific with the dance of the god. Here, then, in the balance of the hands, is illustrated a counterpoise of creation and destruction in the play of the cosmic dance. At the close of the Kali Yuga, Fire will annihilate the body of creation, to be itself then quenched by the ocean of the void. Fire is the element of the destruction of the world. The opposite hand, the upper left, with a half-moon posture of the figure ( ardhacandra-mudra), bears on its palm a tongue of flame. Together, therefore, Sound and Ether signify the first, truth-pregnant moment of creation, the productive energy of the Absolute, in its pristine, cosmogenetic strength. Ether is the primary and most subtly pervasive evolution of the universe, all the other elements, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. Furthermore, Sound is associated in India with Ether, the first of the five elements. This connotes Sound, the vehicle of speech, the conveyer of revelation, tradition, incantation magic and divine truth. 
The upper right hand, it will be observed, carries a little drum, shaped like an hour-glass, for the beating of the rhythm.
The details of these figures are to be read, according to the Hindu tradition, in terms of complex pictorial allegory.
#Shiva tandava stotram danc series
Shiva-Nataraja is represented in a beautiful series of South Indian bronzes dating from the tenth and twelfth centuries A.D. Nature and all its creatures are the effects of his eternal dance. The forces gathered and projected in his frantic, ever-enduring gyration, are the powers of the evolution, maintenance, and dissolution of the world. On a universal scale, Shiva is the Cosmic Dancer in his Dancing Manifestation ( nritya-murti) he embodies in himself and simultaneously gives manifestation to Eternal Energy. It has a cosmogonic function, in that it rouses dormant energies which them may shape the world.
It brings about a new situation and summons into the dancer a new and higher personality. Shiva, therefore, the arch-yogi of the gods, is necessarily also the master of the dance. And this is effected as well by the dance as by prayer, fasting and meditation. To work magic, to put enchantments upon others, one has first to put enchantments on oneself. In India consequently the dance has flourished side by side with the terrific austerities of the meditation grove- fasting, breathing exercises, absolute introversion. Like yoga, the dance induces trance, ecstasy, the experience of the divine, the realization of one’s own secret nature, and, finally, mergence into the divine essence. The dancer becomes amplified into a being endowed with supra-normal powers. Shiva, the lord of the Lingam, the consort of Shakti-Devi, also is Nataraja, King of Dancers.ĭancing is an ancient form of magic.
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