Yuva Bharati – March 2018

42 / March 2018 / Yuva Bharati

there appears very clearly the search for

a junction between stillness and motion,

time arrested and time passing. We believe

that this confrontation will give our period

its uniqueness”.

[(Quoted by Fritjof Capra in his “Web of

Life” (Page 180)]

Together the icons of Anantashayana

Vishnu and Nataraja Shiva represent

action in action and inaction in Action as

visualized by the Gita verse..... (4/18)

Karmany akarma yah pasyed akarmani ca

karma yah

Sa buddhiman manusyesu sa yuktah

krtsnakarmakrt

He who sees inaction in action, and action

in inaction, he is wise among men, he is a

yogi and accomplisher of everything.

Valmiki describe Sri Rama’s physique as

one with symmetrically proportioned

halves

SAMA : SAMA VIBHAKTANGA :

OF well-proportioned limbs [Valmiki

Ramayana (1/1/11)]

In the icon of Ardha Narishwara the Right

• left reconciliation is explicit.

ARDHANARISWARA

1. Creativity emerges by balancing the right
   brain and the left brain.

2.The intellect is to be balanced by the

heart, the logic by the emotion.

3.The intellect provides the common basis

for communication; the emotion provides

the relaxation component, the novelty

component, the spontaneity component.

4.Ardhanariswara is Shiva and Shakti in

one. In most forms Shakti is on the left

of Shiva (Maadhidambhagam Kondan).

There are also forms of Ardhanarishwara

with Shakti on the right hand Shiva on the

left.

5.Mostly Shiva represents the passive being

and Shakti represents the aggressive, active

becoming. In some schools of Shaivism,

Shiva is the main original part Shakti being

an emerging later phase. It depends upon

the sadhanas, Guruparampara, Shakta or

Shaiva tradition.

6.This creative balancing of forces is found

in art, speech, dance, sculptures, music and

in life in general.

7.It symbolizes gender harmony and fusion

of all extremes and opposites – Prakriti

and Purusha, the object and the subject,

the macrocosm and the microcosm, body

and the spirit, the real and the unreal. The

male and the female aspects always exist

together and are inseparable from each

other. Elaborate descriptions are found

in Agamas and Maya matam. Thirty four

South Indian temples are dedicated to

Ardhanarishwara.

8.Ardhanarishwara is a striking and realistic

representation of dynamic harmony

between Shiva and Parvati, between

husband and wife. Joy of togetherness

and strength of unity, complementarity are

represented in it.

9.Kuchipudi solo dances are performed to