Dancing before the Deity.

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Hare Krsna.PAMHO.AGTSP.

In the Dvaraka-Mahatmya the importance of dancing before the Deity is

stated by Lord Krsna as follows:"A person who is in a jubilant spirit, who

feels profound devotional ecstacy while dancing before Me,and who manifests

different features of bodily expression can burn away all the accumulated

sinful reaction he has stocked up for many,many thousands of years." In the

same book there is a statement by Naradha wherein he asserts,"From the body

of any person who claps and dances before the Deity,showing manifestations

of ecstasy,all the birds of sinful activities fly away upwards."Just as by

clapping the hands one can cause many birds to fly away,simalarly the birds

of sinful activities which are sitting on the body can be made to fly away

simply by dancing and clapping before the Deity of Krsna.

(The Nectar of Devotion.Trsln.by HDGSP)

In the service of HGDSP.

Ys Krsna premavati dd.

Balaram desa (Bahrain)