Nataraj Ananda Tandava

If I can't see
The Universe inside of Me,
Still I know it's there...
I've heard that somewhere,
And there were moments when I could feel it.

When I see you
I see It shining in your eyes;
See through Its disguise -
Undressed of illusion,
The Self is awake in a fresh, new dawn.

In this moment,
The marriage of Past and Present,
We draw the Future -
Select the colour
From the palette of possibility...

Then dance with love!
The sounds are coming from above;
Coming from within.
Flute notes emerge from AUM...
Observe the Great Dancer perform!

Oh dance in love!
Witness joy united as One
Though we're not the same.
Yet it's just a game -
The dance and Dancer are inseparable.

Microcosmic dances, a variety,
Expressing unity in diversity
Within the Absolute Choreography.

By Melanie Drury

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Fritzof Capra beautifully relates Nataraj's dance with modern physics in his article The Dance of Shiva: The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of Modern Physics, and then in The Tao of Physics.

He says, "Every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction... without end. For the modern physicists, Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter. As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomena."

Exploring a deeper understanding of quantum theory, in TheBigView it is told:

"In quantum physics the observer is no longer external and neutral, but by choosing what to observe in a given experiment, will effect the results of the experiment. Through the act of measurement he becomes himself a part of observed reality. This marks the end of the neutrality of the experimenter.

"Heisenberg believes that reality is what can be observed - if there are different observations, there must be different realities, which depend on the observer. Meanwhile, Einstein clearly believes in a reality independent of what we can observe. This supports philosopher Kant's view that, 'Reality is by itself and for itself.'

"Contemplating the subatomic realm seems like a Zen exercise. We have to realise that in spite of the different parts and components, the subatomic world in actuality is an undivided whole, where even the boundary between the observer and the observed is blurred. Object and subject have become inseparable, spatial and temporal detachment is an illusion.

"All things are intertwined and interdependent to an unfathomable degree, just as the particles in an atom are. Although the electrons in an atom can be thought of as individual particles, they are not really individual particles, because of the complicated wave relations that exist between them... thus, in the multiplicity of things there is unity."

And what are we, but subatomic particles of the Greater One, moving together in a Divine Dance?