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	Publisher: CBH Publications
	Author S. V. Chamu
	Language: SANSKRIT AND ENGLISH
	Pages: 177
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	8.5x5.5 inch
	Weight 180 gm
	Edition: 2025
	ISBN: 9789383811991
	HBS308

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About the Book The Essentials of Shaivism, The Upanishads, Vedas, Yoga, Nataraja and his various aspects, The Agamas, The cult of Nataraja, form a core of the text of theese notes. The sculpture of Nataraja has evoked greater curiosity and interest in the minds of scholars and art-lovers all over the world than that of any other deity of the Hindu pantheon. With the help of the extensive devotional literature which has grown around the deity over long centuries, they have made a bid to put their fingers upon the hidden meaning of Nataraja. Yet, it cannot be said that they have covered all the esoteric aspects of Nataraja or all the areas to which His sculpture points and the truth that is embodied in the image. The divine truth that lies at the core of the image, the manner in which the objects and ornaments that are there on the image on the one hand, the motions and gestures displayed by the organs of the Deity on the other signify point to that high beatific state of spiritual knowledge and bliss in which that truth is seen and known. The author delves more deeper into the aspects of the central truth which Nataraja points at and such arts as music and dancing. He also makes a thorough investigation into the relation between Nataraja and grammar. He explains and appreciates the deep spiritual meanings that are built into every limb and organ of the divine sculpture and inspired expositions of the hidden mysteries of Nataraja. These notes were presented by Guru Shri Ranga in 1950s when he was actively engaged in the Ashtanga Yoga Vignana Mandir at Attibelle, in Mysore.

Preface The early 1960s we published a short monograph containing a summary of what Shri Ranga Guru had told us about the inner meaning of the image of Nataraja. We were happy to see that it was well received in knowledgeable circles. The few hundred copies which we then printed were all soon sold out and there has been for quite some time now a demand for the book. We were reluctant to re-print the same book because subsequent to its publication Shri Ranga Guru had done intensive research into the various aspects of the cult of Nataraja and collected valuable mate-rial on the same. With so much fresh material on hand, it appeared to us not quite proper to re-issue the earlier mono-graph. Owing to certain reasons, we could not take up the task of writing the book for a number of years after the de-mise of Shri Ranga Guru in 1969. At long last we have, by the grace of the Guru, been able to accomplish that task and thereby give a concrete shape to one of his wishes.

Introduction THE Sculpture of Nataraja has evoked greater curiosity and interest in the minds of scholars and art-lovers all over the world than that of any other deity of the Hindu pantheon. The four-armed god dancing in ecstasy on the back of a prostrate demon has intrigued them and challenged them to read his secret. Many are the scholars who have taken up the challenge and made determined efforts to unravel the secret of the deity. Among them, such distinguished names as those of Ananda K. Comara-swamy and Heinrich Zimmer come prominently to mind. With the help of the extensive devotional literature which has grown around the deity over long centuries, they have made a bid to put their fingers upon the hidden meaning of Nataraja. And their interpretations have by and large been accepted by scholars and art-lovers. They are undoubtedly sound so far as they go, and have been responsible not only for creating but sustaining a lasting interest in the subject. Yet, it cannot be said that they have covered all the esoteric aspects of Nataraja or all the areas to which His sculpture points. After reading them, one is left with the feeling that there is still scope for making a more complete, comprehensive and definitive study of the sculpture and its meanings, and that an organic explanation of the same remains a desideratum.

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