Dancing with Siva Shloka 3

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What Is Meant by "Dancing with Siva"?

 

SHLOKA 3

 

All motion begins in God and ends in God. The whole universe is engaged

in a whirling flow of change and activity. This is Siva's dance. We

are all dancing with Siva, and He with us. Ultimately, we are Siva

dancing. Aum.

 

BHASHYA

 

The world is seen as it truly is--sacred--when we behold Siva's cosmic

dance. Everything in the universe, all that we see, hear and imagine,

is movement. Galaxies soar in movement; atoms swirl in movement. All

movement is Siva's dance. When we fight this movement and think it

should be other than it is, we are reluctantly dancing with Siva. We

are stubbornly resisting, holding ourselves apart, criticizing the

natural processes and movements around us. It is by understanding the

eternal truths that we bring all areas of our mind into the knowledge of

how to accept what is and not wish it to be otherwise. Once this

happens, we begin to consciously dance with Siva, to move with the

sacred flow that surrounds us, to accept praise and blame, joy and

sorrow, prosperity and adversity in equanimity, the fruit of

understanding. We are then gracefully, in unrestrained surrender,

dancing with Siva. The Vedas state, "The cosmic soul is truly the whole

universe, the immortal source of all creation, all action, all

meditation. Whoever discovers Him, hidden deep within, cuts through the

bonds of ignorance even during his life on earth." Aum Namah Sivaya.

 

 

Mahabhakti

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