Back after a break from Time
Providence gave me a five day break from the daily rigmarole. And what a break it was indeed! A time for lots of contemplation. When I was just chanting some verses from the Gita, my fingers automatically formed into some mudras. This spurred my interest in learning Bharatanatyam. On further thought I discovered that Bharatanatyam is one art form is an expression of the sublime divinity in oneself.
I didn't lose much time to pursue an interest of my childhood. Now I have not begun learning dance, but I have started dancing in the presence of my Bharatanatyam Guru, Thanjavoor Rajalakshmi.
This happened after my visit to the Chidambaram Nataraja temple with my Guru, Swami Akshara - meditating on the form of Nataraja - the Lord of Dance.
It was an enormous experience of silence and sound to chant shlokas in the empty corridor and mandapams of the ancient Thyagarajaswami Temple at Thiruvarur - the deity after whom the musical saint Thyagaraja was named.
Difficult to pack the experiences of five days in one blog...
4 comments:
Hi Swahilya,
So you know Bharatnatyam also. I would like to know how many more facets of your personality are yet to be unfurled to the blogworld.
I have heard Bharatnatyam is the divine dance of God and I am sure meditating on that would have left you feel ecstatic.
Your Guru's statement that temple visits are meant to admire the fabulous forms of the God people have visualised indeed kindled my thought process. I would like to hear more on that if you do not mind.
And please blog all your experiences in temples in as many posts as you can. We are only too eager to experience it through you.
Yes Hari, I will do that. Now the more I dance and sing, see or just remain silent - everything is just the divine expression. Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavati: Whichever expression, I think of, that I become.
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