Music 🎵 n dance 🩰- the way to ultimate - to முக்தி - மஹா ஸஸ்வாமிகள்
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi's take is straight away. That's vichara, questioning - questioning Who am I? - way.
Yet Bhagavan Himself - in His trying to experience what's it to die - felt a force in the motionless state of that trial, state of Rigor Mortis.
The music and dance involve creation of a harmonious sound, movement and vibration. That ultimately leads you to the state, the state of Truth, Advaitic non-duality. This exercise and practice Maha Swami explains and refers to as Kundalini Yogam. There is a connecting nerve, naadi, which connects from the root of our spinal cord to the peak on your head. The whole energy is in the root base, மூலாதாரம், beneath the spinal cord. When the energy travels upward and reaches the peak, there you feel the oneness, non-dual Advaitic state.
How do you reach that ultimate?
Multiple ways.:
Pranayama
Mantra chanting
Dhyan - Meditation.
Are there any milestones in between, between the root base of spiral cord and the peak of your head?
Yes.
Through seven chackras.
When you practice any of above Pranayama, mantra chanting or dhyan, it carries the energy upward through every milestone. When it reaches the chackra near the heart and where the mind and energy consummate, you can feel the force, the force Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi referring to. Maha Swami explains this in His inimitable style,
" கீழேயுள்ள மூலாதார சக்ரத்திலிருந்து மேலே உள்ள ஒவ்வொரு சக்ரமாக ஏறிக்கொண்டு போக வேண்டும். இவற்றில் ஹ்ருதையத்திற்கு நேரே இருக்கிற சக்ரத்தில் பிராணனையும், மனஸையும் நிறுத்தும்போது அங்கே தானாகவே ' அனாஹதமாக ' ஒலிக்கின்ற பிரணவ சப்தத்தைக் கேட்க முடியும். அதனால் இதற்கு அனாஹாத சக்ரம் என்றே பெயர்.'
From the vibration that dance and music create, one can move towards the non-dual Advaitic state.
Eswar is a dancer, dances ஆனந்தத்தண்டவம்.
The Raga ஆனந்த பைரவி emanates from this.
Eswar derives His energy from Ma Samaya Devi.
May your
Singing,
Dancing
Dhyan
All be
The offering
To
Eswar
And
Ma
Parvati.
God bless.
Tailpiece:
A Times report, Bangalore, edn:
Headline: IIIT -Lucknow turns to Kathak to keep students stress free.
A junior research scholar teaches dance to students away from class times. Initially boys were shy to join. Now their numbers go up.
The Director, IIIT-L, Shri Arun Sherry:
" There are several studies that prove MUSIC and DANCE are mental healers......Kathak is often termed a form of Meditation that helps release STRESS and RELAXATION."
