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Nataraja:
The King of Dance*
Dr.
Tushar K. Ray
Ramakrishna-Vedanta
Ashram
of
Phoenix, Arizona
www.centralyoga.org
The
image of dancing Siva, our graceful Nataraja
Represents
humanity’s arts, science and religion in one
Amid
Lord’s creation, preservation and destruction
Giving
a complete picture of our universe in action
Motion
all through Lord’s creation appear as His dance
Where
the universe in its entirety is His great body,
With
Lord’s hidden consciousness as the end reality
That
is acting as the support behind this endless
entity
This
transcendent and immanent being has four arms
Revealing
own personality in a flow of tender forms
His
mind-body dance reveals a deep self-absorption
Radiating
distinct grace all over His amazing universe
Drumbeats
from His upper right hand uphold all creation
And
the raised lower right hand assures blessings to
all
Fire
from his upper left hand sustain creative
dissolution
While
lower left hand promises grace to the fallen to
befall
His
right leg rests on deceased showing man’s fallen
grace
Due
to human apathy, bad choice and ensuing confusion
While
lifted leg is revealing grace releasing a mature
soul
And
His gesturing to that foot assures refuge and
liberation
The
fire-circle represents cosmos filled in His
consciousness
The
cobra around His neck reveals awakened Kundalini
That
is Lord’s primal energy only latent in most
human
Just
waiting to be awakened by man for use in own
salvation
Siva’s
dance is the proven truth that anyone can
experience
Happening
here all the time in every atom of our body
That
anyone can develop further feeling things without
So
realizing omnipresent Nataraja in the Lord’s
infinite body
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March
4, 2007; revised 3/13/07
NB.
This ancient version of the universal
truth from India is
fully
consistent with the modern scientific truths
enunciated in
quantum
mechanics, and other newer versions of the
self-intelligent
universe we live in.
*Dedicated
to Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami of the
Himalayan
Academy for this priceless information that
I
gathered from his Master Course lesson (#325)
Selfless Love
Dr.
Tushar K. Ray
Ramakrishna-Vedanta
Ashram
of
Phoenix, Arizona
www.centralyoga.org
Even
a selfish woman can be utterly selfless
While
caring for own newborn son
When
she can go as far as giving up her life
In
order to find own baby’s freedom
Such divergent behavior is a common nature
That
we find in most human soul
And
this is a fact of emergent human feature
From
which in fact there is no return
Life
teaches us in each step of the way
That
self-sacrifice is the way to secure peace
While
selfishness generates negative emotion
That
frequently ruins our interim peace
Such
reaction is rooted in our inmost soul
That
prompts us to be fair to all embodied soul
But
if we do move against such calls
We
suffer the consequence when unease befall
Such
unfailing acts bring a point back home
That
best way to stay peaceful is not to ask return
And,
while making deals we must be fair
Not
upsetting the value of the involved-in person
Soul
is the seat of our energy, intellect and love
Where
loving intellect acts as our dynamic vigor
Where
as, fair intellect cuts out the best kind of deal
While
wisdom of loving intellect is always revealed
Selfless
souls rarely carry the traces of ego
That
too is perfectly clear from mother-child duo
Where
subject-object duality vanish all together
And
one soul shines forth as the purest of all
This
mother-baby unity shows the purity of love
That
should be imbibed when cleansing own soul
And
in few other passions where duality depart
Can
be adapted as model for our peace to uphold
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