The statues in sculptures and artifacts,
Art-models and the inspiration behind the source of reckoning,
Dating back to
An age, era gone by,
To the days of yore and antiquity
To look back in wonder.
Shiva statues, art-models into the museums,
Beaming with,
Radiating from,
The curators viewing in astonishment,
Nataraja Shiva,
Shiva as a nata, a dancer,
The Lord, King of the dancers.
A yogi, a fakira, a sanyasin at dance,
Dancing in joy,
Feeling the anandam,
The Anandam Divine
And dancing
On snowy Kailasha and its peaks
Or in the places of meditation.
The sadhaka with the third eye
On the forehead
And the three ash-lines,
A sacred thread over the bare body,
A snake rounded around the neck
And with the rudraksha rosary
Doing the tapasya.
Seated on a tiger leather cloth
With the water jug, a trident and a damru,
The Yogi in stoic pose of own,
The bare body towelled with the tiger leather,
Meditating,
Doing His kriya-karma,
Lost into the meditations of His.
The hair is matted and long,
The Ganges rising from mythically
From the mountainous fonts and falls,
Glides and slides
And flowing downwards
And the yogi losing,
The river flowing,
It is said, who can but say about them?
The arms and the wrists with the rudraksha bracelets,
The Yogi Divine
As a sahdaka losing Himself somewhere,
Meditating on
Contemplating and loitering around
In His Escapades.
The poses and postures of His many,
The Lila Divine
Untold,
Dancing as with the Lasya (the gentle form)
Associated with the creation of the world
And the Tandava (the destructive form)
With the destruction of the universe,
But Nataraja gentler and feeling the Divine Ananda
In the Lasya form of dancing here.
Shiva the Cosmic Dancer
Dancing the Dance of Bliss
Feeling the Anandam Divine,
The Yogi in spirits,
Overtaken by transcendental joys,
Meditative delights and its summits,
Dancing in His joyous mood of own
With the trance-like situations.
The left leg held aloft and balanced,
Rarely with the right leg,
The upper right hand with the damru,
The upper left hand fiery,
The second upper hand held aloft to show the Abhaya-mudra
And the second left hinting to the held on foot
And the onward movement towards the jungle of ignorance.
People talking about the Dance of Shiva,
The Dance Divine, the Cosmic Dance,
The pride and glory of museums
And their curators and conservators in all glees
To mark,
The Yogi, Sadhaka and Fakira
In Meditation,
Meditating on Om-like universe
And its tonal vibration
Resulting into the break of speech, sound and rhythm
Of life, world and expression.
But while the yogi in a dancing posture
Which means
The artist and the art become one
In the trance-like situation
Or the feeling of the Divine Ananda
As the same is with the scene and time of Creation.
There are also other poses and postures in which
Lord Shiva can be seen riding a bull
And dancing over,
Being endowed with the ten arms
And on a bull
In a dancing posture and pose of His,
A sadhu, yogi, fakira
With a kamandala, a trisula and a damru
Going His Way finally.

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