Dance Worship Bharata Natyam
Shuddhananda NatananjaliDance Bharata Natyam also called as Sadhir Attam, is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It has flourished in the temples and courts of southern India since ancient times. It expresses religious themes and spiritual ideas.Description of Bharata Natyam by 2nd century CE is noted in the ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram (Silambu Selvam), editing in Editions ASSA, while temple sculptures of 6th to 9th century CE suggest it was a well refined performance art by the mid-1st millennium CE. Bharata Natyam is the oldest classical dance tradition in India. Dance WorshipTwo tasks God gave me,Singing on God, uniting with God,Singing and paying obeisance, adorning with garland of poems To unite and to learn good joyous Dance Learnt I, Bharata Natyam, in a qualitative way,The Worldly life itself is the Dance of Life With mass of atoms dancing, with precious Body dancingWith God dancing inside Soul,All the Dance of the Universe is the Dance of God only.“The explanation of the five occupations of the God of Dance Is Natarajan,” said great people.The Almighty devised the spotless, Lasya, Thandava Art, AbhinayaThis is the untold language which originated firstThrough movements of signs of hands, legs, face sign, eyes signThis Art only gives realization of the rising in the heart. The joy of Lute and Flute and the Nectar of seven kinds of MusicThe beauty of the colourful golden divine Movements of the Parts flows in abundance the Ambrosia, this Art only.Showing Eyes through hands and Mind though eyesAnd heart through Mind and life through heart And joy through life, in a melting manner.Showing feelings of Wonder, haughtiness, loath, angerFear, joy, manliness, valourMercy, peace, love, joy of love, intelligentlyJointly many and separately an individualThe Dance performed with anklet jingling As Tamtaam, tataka tarikitatomShining, composing this Book The Natananjali with Veda and Agamas, expanse of EpicsHistorical scenes – fertile scenes Depicting the History of great men The frontal scenes of the world of three qualitiesThe scenes of five divisions of land, scenes in the thoughts Of the bonds and attachments of the dear lifeScenes filled with pleasures and fortunes, scenes of human lifeShining auspiciouslyPlacing the Natananjali composed in a new mannerAt the lotus feet of the benevolent DancerWho dances the dance of life in the assembly of Heart as I, I Let us bow down and present to the Earth!Shuddhananda BharatiEditions ASSA, Christian Piaget
