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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