Features & Benefits
- Dance induces trance, ecstasy and the experience of the divine.
- Shiva is the master of the dance and the arch-yogi of the gods.
- The Dance of Bliss (anandatandava) is symbolized by Shiva’s four arms, where each hand holds an object or a gesture.
- The hour-glass drum of Shiva represents the first and most pervasive of the elements, which is sound.
- The male and female vital principles and the universe's creation and dissolution are represented by two triangles penetrating each other to form a hexagon.
- Shiva Sutra encapsulated the whole Sanskrit grammar in the sound of the drum.