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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