GARBA KEYNOTE BOOK 15th DEC 2015 pdf

Maa Shailaputri, is like someone who is ofsome status, toughened by life and is confident indealing with situations. Her vehicle is sturdy andexperienced.Maa Brahmacharini, is like a chaste personwho gets on with the chores and has an interest inspiritual affairs.Maa Chandragantha, is like someone whois quick to deal with disharmony and her vehicleis aggressive.Maa Kushmanda, is like someone involvedwith ordinary matters and her vehicle iscomfortable.Maa Skandamata, is like someone lovingand her vehicle is placid. 201Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Maa Katyanani, is like someone balancedand her vehicle is contemplative.Maa Kalaratri, is like someone eccentric andher vehicle does what it wants.Maa Mahagauri, is like someone noble andher vehicle is proud.Maa Siddhidatri, is like someone who is wiselike a teacher.The vehicles and mounts of the goddesses are likean extension of the aspects of the character of thepersonality of the goddess. 202Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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shiva The Mighty Dancing ShivaAccording to Hindu legend the world was createdby Lord Shiva in a dancing mood. With a divinedance Shiva annihilated his monster enemies .Ever since then the gods have danced. With theprinciple in mind, that what delights the godsmust delight man, dance was conceived of ascoming from the gods as their great gift to man.The Significance of Shiva's Dance:This cosmic dance of Shiva is called'Anandatandava,' meaning the Dance of Bliss, andsymbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation anddestruction, as well as the daily rhythm of birthand death. The dance is a pictorial allegory of thefive principle manifestations of eternal energy —creation, destruction, preservation, salvation, andillusion. According to Coomerswasmy, the danceof Shiva also represents his five activities: 206Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Fritzof Capra in his article \"The Dance of Shiva:The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of ModernPhysics,\" and later in the The Tao of Physicsbeautifully relates Nataraj's dance with modernphysics. He says that \"every subatomic particlenot only performs an energy dance, but also is anenergy dance; a pulsating process of creation anddestruction…without end…For the modernphysicists, then Shiva's dance is the dance ofsubatomic matter. As in Hindu mythology, it is acontinual dance of creation and destructioninvolving the whole cosmos; the basis of allexistence and of all natural phenomena.\"The Nataraj Statue at CERN, Geneva:In 2004, a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva wasunveiled at CERN, the European Center forResearch in Particle Physics in Geneva. A specialplaque next to the Shiva statue explains thesignificance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmicdance with quotations from Capra: \"Hundreds ofyears ago, Indian artists created visual images ofdancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes 207Tuesday, 15 December 2015

In our time, physicists have used the mostadvanced technology to portray the patterns ofthe cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmicdance thus unifies ancient mythology, religiousart and modern physics.\"In a marvellously unified and dynamiccomposition expressing the rhythm and harmonyof life, Nataraj is shown with four hands representthe cardinal directions. He is dancing, with his leftfoot elegantly raised and the right foot on aprostrate figure — 'Apasmara Purusha', thepersonification of illusion and ignorance overwhom Shiva triumphs. The upper left hand holdsa flame, the lower left hand points down to thedwarf, who is shown holding a cobra. The upperright hand holds an hourglass drum or 'dumroo'that stands for the male-female vital principle,the lower shows the gesture of assertion: \"Bewithout fear.\"Snakes that stand for egotism, are seen uncoilingfrom his arms, legs, and hair, which is braided andbejewelled. His matted locks are whirling as hedances within an arch of flames representing theendless cycle of birth and death. 208Tuesday, 15 December 2015

On his head is a skull, which symbolizes hisconquest over death. Goddess Ganga, theepitome of the holy river Ganges, also sits on hishairdo. His third eye is symbolic of hisomniscience, insight, and enlightenment. Thewhole idol rests on a lotus pedestal, the symbol ofthe creative forces of the universe.As the Lord of Dance, Nataraja, Shiva performsthe tandava, the dance in which the universe iscreated, maintained, and dissolved. Shiva's long,matted tresses, usually piled up in a knot, loosenduring the dance and crash into the heavenlybodies, knocking them off course or destroyingthem utterly.The ancient sculpture of Nataraja represents thedance of the Cosmos. The dance of Nataraja goeson at all levels in the Universe – from galaxies tosub atomic particles. He is the creator. He is the creation. He is the dancer. He is the dance. He is the subject. He is the object. We are all part of this eternal Cosmic Dance 209Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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raas leelaThe Raas Leela of Krsna with the Gopis of Brij isfamous and provides inspiration as to thewonderful ways in which Garba and Raas may bearranged.Here is an extract from the Bhagavata Puran\"Then the divine Krsna gave this command to hisIllusive Power, ' \"We will engage in the circulardance, wherefore do thou prepare a fair place,and remain standing here, and whoever shall askfor anything, whatever it may be, do thou bringand give it.'The Illusive Power, on hearing this, went to thebank of the Yamuna, and prepared a large circularterrace of pure gold, and having studded it withpearls and diamonds, fixed on all sides plantaintrees with young shoots, for pillars, fastened onthem gay festoons of various kinds of flowers,and, returning to the divine Krishn Chand, toldhim. 217Tuesday, 15 December 2015

On hearing it, Krishn was pleased, and, takingwith him the young women of Braj, the Gopis,went to the bank of the Yamuna. Having arrivedthere, they saw that the brilliance of the circularterrace erected for the circular dance, was fourtimes more beautiful than that of the moon's orb,and on all sides of it the sand was spread out likethe moonbeams. A cool, sweet, fragrant breeze,continued blowing, and on one side the verdureof the dense forest derived increased lovelinessfrom the night. On beholding this scene, all theGopis were much delighted.Near that spot was a lake named Man Sarowar tothe banks of which they went and put on cleanrobes and ornaments, such as their minds desired,and having adorned themselves from head tofoot, returned, playing in harmony on fineinstruments, such as the lute and timbrel. Then,intoxicated with love, they laid aside all care anddiffidence, and, in company with the divineKrishn, began to play on instruments, to sing anddance.At that time the divine Govind, in the midst of thecircle of Gopis, appeared as beautiful as the moonin a circlet of stars.\" 218Tuesday, 15 December 2015

You need a broad mind and good philosophicalunderstanding to appreciate the next fewpassages in the Puran ( which are not set outhere ).Eventually the circular dance ends thus;“ Such was the concert of musical modes (theRagas of which there are six ), and airs ( theRaginis of which are thirty ), that hearing them,even the winds and waters ceased to move, andthe moon, with the circle of stars, beingfascinated, was pouring down nectar with its rays.Meanwhile,the night advanced, and six monthspassed away, and no one was aware of it.”The above is from the Bhagavata Purana, TenthBook ( Prem Sagar ) 219Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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divine danceosho says\" Raise your sights and look at whatever ishappening all around in this vast universe of ours.Is it anything other than a dance, a celebration, anabounding carnival of joy? It is all celebration,whether it is clouds gliding in the heavens orrivers rushing to the seas or seeds on their waysto becoming flowers and fruit, or bees hummingor birds on the wing or love affairs between menand women. It is all a panorama of play anddance. Raas has a universal meaning; it has a cosmicconnotation and significance. The meeting ofopposite energies is the cornerstone of allcreation. Raas, the dance of celebration, is themost profound attribute of the mighty stream ofcreation\"\" Krishna's raas with the milkmaids of his village isnot an ordinary dance, on a small scale it reallyrepresents the universal dance of creation that,since eternity, goes on and on. It epitomises theeverlasting drama of the making and unmaking ofthe universe. It igmivmeesny2so2e4uoarcghleimstpras.e of that divinedance and thatTuesday, 15 December 2015

It is for this reason that Krishna's maharaas ceases to have a sexual connotation. Not that it prohibits any sexual interpretation, but for certain sex has been left far behind. In reality Krishna does not dance as a mere Krishna, he represents here, the whole of the male element in creation, known in Sanskrit as purusha. And similarly the gopis represent the entire female element, prakriti. The maharaas represents the combined dance of prakriti and purusha. It is a dance of the meeting of the male and female energies, of purusha and prakriti. It has nothing to do with any individual man and woman; it represents the mighty cosmic dance. It is because of this that a single Krishna dances with any number of gopis. Ordinarily it is not possible for a single man to dance with many women at a time. Ordinarily no man can be in love with many women together, but Krishna does it, and does it beautifully. It is amazing that every milkmaid, every gopi taking part in the maharaas, believes that Krishna is dancing with her, that he is hers. \" \" Dance is the most primitive form of human language, because when man had not yet learned to speak, he spoke through gestures. If one man had to communicate22w5ith another, he madeTuesday, 15 Decgemebsetru20r1e5s with his face, his eyes, his hands and

Even today a dumb person only expresses himself through gestures. Gestures make up the whole language of nature. It is used and understood all over. So there is a reason why dance came to centre stage for the raas, the celebration. Gesture is the most profound medium of expression because it touches the deepest parts of man's mind and heart. Dance reaches where words fail. A dancer can go from one end of the earth to another and will, more or less, make himself understood through his dance. No language will be needed to understand and appreciate him. No particular level of civilisation and culture will be required to understand a dance. Dance is a kind of universal language; it is understood everywhere on this planet. Man's collective unconscious is well aware of this language. The great raas happening in infinite space, with millions of stars like the sun and moon dancing rhythmically, is not an ordinary dance. It is not meant for entertainment; it is not show business. In a sense it should be described as overflowing bliss. There is such an abundance of bliss in the heart of existence that it is flowing, overflowing. That is what we call the river of existence. The presence of the polar opposites in the universe facilitates its flow. \" 226Tuesday, 15 December 2015

\" Although Krishna and his girlfriends are no morewith us as people, the moon and the stars underwhich they danced together are still with us, andso are the trees and the hills and the earth andthe skies that were once so drunk with the bliss ofthe raas. So, although millennia have passed, thevibes of the maharaas are still with us. the raas isas relevant today as it was in the times of KrishnaMore or less every primitive community is awareof the beauty and significance of the raas, of theirown kind of raas. They work hard through the day,and at night both men and women gathertogether under the open sky and dance withabandon for hours and hours. While dancing, theyforget their family relationships and mix freelywith each other as men and women, and dancemadly, as if all of life is meant for dancing andcelebrating. They go to sleep only when they areutterly tired, and so they enter into a sleep sodeep it may cause supposedly civilised and nondancing societies envy. \" 227Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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raas garbaThe dance is a worship of the whole body and aworship by the whole body. Your bare feet stepand thump and beat on the ground Refreshinglyyour feet carry you away. Rarely do people get achance to wave their hands and use the power oftheir arms to swing and click, and have a greattime while doing so.The good Garba steps, shake, rattle and roll yourbody in the right blend and rhythm and createmomentum like a gyroscope, so you can spin andoscillate in balance and in harmony and keepgoing on and on and on. After a time the stepsflow well and an almost perpetual motion ensuesand enfolds.This physical action in conjunctionwith the pleasant dance, the music, the radiantpeople and situation is a heightened way ofenriching ourselves, our body and our being. 229Tuesday, 15 December 2015

The parry of the hits from the others and themany ways that you click the sticks. Gently, hard ..soft.... missed..... with ferocity, withindifference.......with a flirting glance ,atantalising trance, ......with a aren’t we having funglance. eyes meet ,the eyes of a stranger, those ofa friend, the glance of a dancer, the gaze of atrancerThe way that some of the dancers move in suchswirling and flowing rhythm, in balance, harmonyand glow, swift and speedy, in an instance theyare gone to the far side. Only to reappear a fewminutes later, twirling and swirling away,spinning and weaving, again and again, roundand around .........all over the ground.A communion, a bringing and coming together, aflowing and growing together. Magical,Mysterious, It is not the kind of dance you seeanywhere else. it seems natural to these dancersthat they should move and flow in this way andthey move and flow and swirl and spin in themost awesome and amazing dazzlement. 230Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Like a gyroscope you are held in balance andharmony and the gravity of the spin and spinningkeeps you in orbit. It is an evocation of thespinning of the cosmos, the essence that holdsthe stars and planets in play and sway. This danceof devotion binds these dancers together indancing deliriousnessThese are not mere dancers, they are far more,taking part in this cosmic play of grace anddevotion and being part of a wondrousperformance, such that the gods andndgoddesses smile and play, dally and dance inwonder and merriment, gazing in amazement onthe spinners and shakers, the spinners andswirlers, trancing around the ground in theirdevotion profound This is not mere dancing, This is a differing dimension, This is sparkling and shining devotion,This is playing and flowing with the divine 231Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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