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Part VI : Kirtan: devotional dance and song
In the afternoon session from four to five, there will be half
an hour of kirtan, devotional singing and dancing. Everyone has
to participate in it. The kirtan will go on for half an hour,
and during that period you should sing and dance totally and madly.
This will be followed by half an hour of silence. After the kirtan,
you should blindfold your eyes, plug your ears and sit down in
silence.
During that half an hour of silence, there should be no expression,
no catharsis of any kind. No sounds, no weeping, no shouting,
no laughing, nothing, you are simply like a corpse. All that laughing,
shouting, singing and weeping has to be exhausted completely in
the half an hour of kirtan. Only he who will be able to empty
himself completely of all these will be able to be silent for
half an hour. If you withheld anything, that will try to erupt
in the half an hour of silence period and only you will be responsible
for that. In the kirtan, jumping, dancing, you cathart completely
and throw out all the rubbish. Then for half an hour, you either
lie down or just sit completely still, like a corpse. As you like—sitting
or lying down, but no catharsis of any kind in that half an hour.
No sounds, no movements, no action of the body. Everything has
to be made silent-body mind and speech, everything has to be made
silent… thousd01
Dancing is not passive, it is very active. In the end you become
movement; the body is forgotten, only movement remains. Really,
dancing is a most unearthly thing, a most unearthly art, because
it is just rhythm in movement. It is absolutely immaterial so
you cannot hold on to it. You can hold on to the dancer, but never
to the dancing. It just withers in the cosmos. It is there, and
then it is not there; it is not here, and then suddenly it is
here—it comes out of nothing and it is here—it comes
out of nothing and then, again, goes into nothing.
A dancer is sitting here; there is no dancing in him. But if
a poet is sitting here, poetry may be in him; poetry can exist
in the poet. A painter is here: in a very subtle way, painting
is present. Before he paints, painting is there. But with a dancer
nothing is present, and if it is present, then he is simply a
technician and not a dancer. The movement is a new phenomenon
coming in. The dancer becomes just a vehicle: the movement takes
over….
Take any activity and go to the limit where there is either
madness or meditation. Lukewarm search will not do. artof02
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