CHIDAMBARAM

"By the pressure of your feet when you dance, the earth begins to shake . By the impact of your circling long hands moving like iron beams, the firmament with its stars and planets is overtaken with fear. The heavenly region is struck by the whirling locks of your matted hair, And yet you are dancing for the protection of the Universe! How strange and extra-ordinary seem the ways of this supreme sovereign".

This ecstatic account applauds the purport of dance and the glory of the Lord. Another appreciation from an art critic "Creation arises from the drum; protection proceeds from the hand of hope, from fire proceeds destruction; the foot held aloft gives release and fourth hand points to the lifted foot, the refuge of the soul".

Needless to emphasize that the paths are two, but the goal is same. Hence Tirumular says "Chidambaram is everywhere, everywhere his dance". Siva abides in every individual soul and destroys the pasas or fetters, which bind each individual soul like a Pasa. The burning ground or the Samsara where the Lord dances is the heart and what is burnt is the ego, illusion and Karma.

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