Witness Her Dance


 "I cannot meditate. My mind wanders. My thoughts race."

But your mind is the Goddess, the Goddess Shakti. And you are Shiva, watching her dance. How can you be in conflict with your mind when Shakti is so beautiful, and Shiva is so deeply stunned into silence?

Lord Shiva is your own pure awareness, astounded into stillness by Parvati's power, the sinuous dance of creativity that is your own energy, your own mind. She does not astonish Shiva into unconsciousness, but into more radiant consciousness. And the more Shiva has to witness, the more conscious He becomes. 

So if your mind wanders, let it wander to the farthest rim of the universe. Let it spin to the edge, caressing every galaxy along the way. When you understand that your relationship with your mind is the relationship of Shiva and the Goddess, there is no more conflict with thoughts. They come and they go, Her dance in His boundless silence. Thoughts arise from the vacuum and dissolve into the void. Every meditation is empty and clear, even when it whirls with particles of thought, just as the desert air is empty and clear, even as it shimmers with a mirage.

There is nothing more beautiful than to witness the work of grace: to watch the Goddess blossom through your heart into the world. Her movement lures pure consciousness into creation. Beginning as a dance of thought, She live-streams through your senses as the cosmos. And as is the quality of your mind, so is the world you perceive: yatha drishti, tatha srishti. Meet this holy paramour in the bridal chamber of hridaya, your heart-center, where She dances at the wedding of Purusha and Prakriti, Creator and Creation.

Shakti, who is none other than the play of your thoughts, irradiates the cosmos with splendor - cleansing, healing, re-creating earth and stars. Yet this ever-destroying and recreational dance does not happen through your will, but hers alone. All you can do is enfold her in the arms of astonishment. Hug your mind with an embrace that is vaster than light. You are the holder of the space where her dance unfolds.

Satyam, Shivam, Subham, Sundaram, Kantam
Sat-chit-ananda, Sampurna, Sukha, Santam, 
Chidanandarupah, Shivoham, Shivoham.

"True, auspicious, pure, beautiful and radiant is consciousness itself: satchitananda, existence-knowledge-bliss.
The very form of that bliss-consciousness, fullness, happiness and peace, I am Shiva, Shiva I am!"


2 comments:

Marcia Miller said...

love this so much! You put words here to what I also know to be true.
gratitude,
Marcia Miller

AKL said...

Thank you, friend, I will use your inspiration to share this on facebook.