When Shiva the Great Yogin chooses
to become the Lord of the Dance, Nataraja,
the universe appears as Consciousness
in its most ecstatic forms:
as art and play, as knowledge and beauty,
as the very embodiment of awareness
in the form of the Self.
—From Clothed in Consciousness:
Nataraja in the Tantric Tradition
by Dr. Douglas Brooks
QotD: Nataraja
Posts from This Journal “consciousness” Tag
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QotD: Travel Kills Bigotry
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome,…
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QotD: If Learning, Not Gloating, Is the Goal
"A single dot on a canvas is not a painting and a single bet cannot resolve a complex theoretical dispute. This will take many questions and…
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QotD: Acceptance raises Consciousness
“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy…
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QotD: Unconscious situations manifest as External
The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual…
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QotD: Your Path
Your confusion is not pathology, it is path. It has something to show you that clarity could never reveal. The nature of chaos is wisdom, but you…
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Poem OTD: Tiny Frightening Requests
SOMETIMES Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of…
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QotD: How to Help
"Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more…
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QotD: Choice and Responsibility--and Default
I have often said "it's a free will universe" as a basis for extolling choice as a power, whether conscious or unconscious, for determining your…
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Poem OTD: Treasure the Ordinary
“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to…
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