The Prime Cause which gave birth to all the worlds and to the various forms of beings may thus be conceived as a harmonic and rhythmic principle, symbolized by the beat of drums and the movements of dance. As the creative principle, Shiva does not utter the world, he dances it
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Dance is really the most brilliant analogy to express the origin and nature of reality. As Alan Watts often noted, there is no goal in dancing beyond itself—just like reality. And whatever goal one might assign to it, that's simply one's preferred way to dance. 💚

