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Part VII : Nataraj Meditation
Nataraj is dance as a total meditation. There are three stages,
lasting a total of 65 minutes.
Let the dance flow in its own way; don't force it. Rather, follow
it; allow it to happen. It is not a doing but a happening. Remain
in the mood of festivity. You are not doing something very serious;
you are just playing, playing with your life-energy, playing with
your bio-energy, allowing it to move in its own way. Just like
the wind blows and the river flows - you are flowing and blowing.
Feel it.
And be playful. Remember this word 'playful' always - with me,
it is very basic. In this country we call creation God's leela
- God's play. God has not created the world; it is his play.
First stage: 40 minutes
With eyes closed dance as if possessed. Let your unconscious take
over completely. Do not control your movements or be a witness
to what is happening. Just be totally in the dance.
Second stage: 20 minutes
Keeping your eyes closed, lie down immediately. Be silent and
still.
Third stage: 5 minutes
Dance in celebration and enjoy. medfre03
There is nothing better than dance for dropping the ego; hence
I insist that all meditators should dance. Because if you go really
in a whirlwind, if you are really a whirling pool of energy, if
you really are in the dance, the dancer is lost. In the dance
the dancer is always lost. If it is not lost then you are not
dancing. Then you may be performing, then you may be manipulating,
then you may be doing some bodily exercises, but you are not dancing.
Dancing means so lost, so drunk - and enjoying the energy that
is created by dance. By and by you will see your body is no more
so solid as it was before. By and by you will see that you are
melting; the boundary is losing its sharpness, it is becoming
a little vague. You cannot exactly feel where you end and where
the world starts. A dancer is in such a whirlpool, he becomes
such a vibration, that the whole life is felt as in one rhythm.
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