SHIVA THE COSMIC DANCER

Natraja is a cosmic dancer. He is a beautiful dancer.  He dances in the ring of fire.

According to the legend once there were many sages in South India, to assess their qualification God Vishnu and God Shiva visited South India.  Vishnu turned to a beautiful lady and Shiva to be her guard. On seeing the mesmerizing beauty of that lady, the sages started to fight among themselves. When they could not decide with this fight, who is going to own this lady, they then run towards Shiva and tried to kill him. For this, they used mystical mantras and the fire of their Hovan, in this fire they created a tiger.   The tiger ran toward Shiva to kill him. Shiva with his nail tears off that tiger. He separated his skin and wore that skin as a loincloth. 

The sages got angry at Shiva with this. They started chanting Mantra and created the most poisonous snake. This snake attacked Shiva, but Shiva wore it around His neck. This poisonous snake represents fear of death, and Shiva, who is God of Death and wore this fear as a garland. In between the yogic fire, Shiva started dancing.

 The angered sages then created a devil known as Apsamar, the asur of forgetfulness, he represents indifference, ignorance, and laziness. This Asur is dark in color. It is the darkness of the heart. Shiva broke his back and started dancing over him. This states that a person who wanted to be successful has to win over the darkness of his heart.

 From the head of Shiva flanges of innumerable snakes come out. These snakes represent the negative thoughts of a person. If a person wants to become yogic he has to remove all these negative thoughts.

 This dancing Shiva has four Arms that spanned in all four directions that are north, south, east, and west. He is standing on Apsamar with his left foot and his right foot is gracefully raised above the ground, which says that one must be released from all the forces.

 His left arm is in form of Gaj Hast mudra which reminds us of the removal of obstacles. His right hand is raised in Abhay mudra, which states that God is the protector. In this statue one arm has fire and the other arm has the drum. The drum produces the first sound of the universe.  It says that creation needs rhythm. Further, The fire in his hands states that one needs to control one’s hunger if one wants to create,  the hunger of all worldly desires. Fire in his hand represents the hunger of a person. 

The crescent moon on his forehead represents that time is passing, and time is eternal. It’s going on whether the destruction is going on the construction is going on, The time is passing. He is surrounded by a fire circle which represents the whole of the universe he is standing in the middle of a lotus. According to legend represents the place of creation. Lotus also represents the mind of a person. It says that the creation and destruction all is going along in the mind of a person. The whole universe resides in the heart of a person. He has to balance himself in this universe, dance gracefully without the fear of death, to remove all the obstacles. He has to win over his darkness. He has to be the creator of life. He has to destroy all his negative thoughts.  He has to be Fearless. He has to be graceful. He has to be an Adi yogi.

 NATARAJA  AT CERN

 The  CERN, Switzerland, The Centre which has established the Large Hadron Collider. In LHC has created the  Boson Higgs particle the God particle. The GOD particle dances, the dance of Shiva, the Dance of Bliss.  This dance of these particles in the Large Hadron Collider is the dance of creation and annihilation. As the Nataraj statues prove that Shiva’s dance is Cosmic Dance, this dance proves that creation and destruction are going hand in hand. As shown in the cosmic dance of Shiva which is the dance of destruction, which is the dance of creation, and this dance balances the destruction and creation. Similarly, the subatomic particles dance in the Large Hadron Collider to create atoms that are the basis of all the molecules. This Natraj Statue is 2 meters high. It was gifted by the government of India in 2004. India is also an associate member of CERN. The proton collider in LCH uses energy to create mass. The way cosmic energy has created the universe.