NATARAJA – the lord of dancers showing his fivefold activity, the expressions of his divine totality, his dancing limbs convey through their movements and symbols of the five-fold action of creation, maintenance, dissolution, veiling unveiling & liberation. Shiva dances the cosmos into existence upholds its existence & dances it out of existence.

From the dawn of creation, the Wild God, whose name is Rudra is consciousness. He is a great yogi, the guardian of the absolute. The androgen God, Shiva says of Himself “I am the originator, the God abiding in the supreme bliss. I, the yogi, dance eternally.” The celestial dance of Shiva, the cosmic dance and the dance of destruction – creation have the universe for their stage.