The Dance
Why look at his ashes
or fear his serpent
or heed his elusive
Vedic talk?
all you need to know is this
he is the essence
the god of all
that lives and moves
- Manikkavachakar on Shiva.Shiva as Nataraja, eleventh century, bronze, height 111.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Picture from the exhibition Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
