alanbwt on Nostr: “This is the insight which underlies the cosmological myth of Hinduism, where the ...

“This is the insight which underlies the cosmological myth of Hinduism, where the world in all the fullness of its delight and horror is seen as the ecstasy of God, perpetually incarnating himself by an act of self-abandonment in the myriad forms of creatures. This is why Shiva, the divine prototype of all suffering and destruction, is Nataraja, the ‘Lord of the Dance.’ For the everlasting, agonizing dissolution and renewal of life is the dance of Shiva, always ecstatic because it is without inner conflict, because in other words it is nondual—without the resistance of a controller external to the controlled, without any other principle of motion than its own sahaja, or spontaneity.”

— Alan Watts, Nature, Man And Woman