What is art ? What are the 64 arts ? Are you an artist ?

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Wonderful message, thanks. Finally something to appeal to the artist

sadhakas lol. Art is a nice subject and can lead to the same goal

that yoga and the occult sciences lead, through absolute emotional

involvement (while creating) and through absolute mental

concentration that is needed to master the virtuosity of an art. What

do you think?

Hari om!

 

, kathy rabold <karatagi34677>

wrote:

> What is art ? Here are 64 arts mentioned in the Shaiva Tantras and

the

> Shrimad Bagavata Mahapura.

>

> Om.

>

> 1. Singing

> 2. Playing on various musical instruments

> 3. Dancing

> 4. Acting and gesticulation, mimicry etc.

> 5. Drawing, painting, calligraphy

> 6. Painting figures on various parts of the body with muskpaste

and fragrances

> 7. Rice, flower designs for worship

> 8. Preparing a bed of flowers

> 9. Coloring teeth, limbs, and wearing apparel

> 10. Paving a floor with precious stones

> 11. Preparing a bed

> 12. Using a pot of water as a musical instrument and treading on

water

> 13. Showing miracles of various kinds

> 14. Preparing chaplets and wreathes

> 15. Making ornaments of flowers for the ears, braid, etc.

> 16. Beautifying the body with clothes and ornaments

> 17. Painting ornamental figures on the ears

> 18. Making perfumes and cosmetics etc.

> 19. Making ornaments of various designs

> 20. Jugglery

> 21. Appearing in various guises of one's choice

> 22. Sleight of hand

> 23. Culinary art

> 24. Making drinks of various tastes and colors and other spiritous

liquors

> 25. Weaving and needlework of various kinds

> 26. Working puppets by strings

> 27. Making musical instruments of various kinds

> 28. Solving riddles

> 29. Capping verses

> 30. Skill in uttering tongue-twisters

> 31. The art of reading manuscripts easily and quickly

> 32. Dramaturgy and story-writing

> 33. Completion of incomplete verses or part verses

> 34. Making ligature, canes, arrows, etc.

> 35. Spindle-work

> 36. Carpentry

> 37. Architecture

> 38. Testing valuable metals and precious stones

> 39. Alchemy

> 40. Colouring precious stones

> 41. Knowledge of latent minerals

> 42. Nursing and treating plants

> 43. Setting game rams, cocks, and quails to fight as sport

> 44. Teaching parrots and other birds to talk as humans

> 45. Making an enemy quit his place by means of a charm

> 46. Cleaning and dressing the hair

> 47. Reading letters removed from one's sight and divination within

one's palm

> 48. Knowledge of books written in the language of barbarians

> 49. Fluently talking in other Indian dialects

> 50. Reading good or bad omens

> 51. Making diagrams, formulas with letters for mystic formulae or

amulets

> 52. Splitting hard substances as diamonds into two or more

different shapes

> 53. Reading the thoughts of others and bringing them out in verse

> 54. Lexicography

> 55. Knowledge of prosody

> 56. Increasing the number of an object by various devices

> 57. Playing tricks

> 58. Showing off one's clothes to be of a superior texture than what

they are

> 59. Playing at dice

> 60. Attracting remote objects

> 61. Playing children's games

> 62. The practice of charms

> 63. Foreknowledge of the winning party in a debate

> 64. Keeping goblins and vampires under one's control

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>

> Satchitananda

>

> Kathy