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dancing the dance

 

 

The dance is a worship of the whole body and a worship by the whole body.  Your bare feet step and thump and beat on the ground Your meridians and whole being shudders and flows with their impact;  Refreshingly your feet carry you away. 

 

 

The clapping of the hand stimulates the nerves. With the dandiya in your hand you let out your stresses and strains in wielding and clicking the sticks. Rarely do people get a chance to wave their hands and use the power of their  arms to  swing and click, and have a great time while doing so. 

 

seduce friends, 

vanquish foes, 

a gentle blend

a wispy blow

 

 

 

 

This is a “violently” good ways to be non violent to others. We have our traditions and our insights which find their way into dance and music and we cool our tempers and lessen our stresses and strains. The clicking and whipping with the sticks and the clapping of the hands, allows us to take out our frustrations, our tensions and traumas. The dance allows us to transcend and it soothes and sustains us. It is a whole exercise for ourselves. 

 

 

The good Garba steps, shake, rattle and roll your body in the right blend and rhythm and create momentum like a gyroscope, so you can spin and oscillate in balance and in harmony and keep going on and on and on. The patterns of the steps make sure that the excitement and motion does not tire you and after a time the steps flow well and an almost perpetual motion flows

 

This physical action in conjunction with the pleasant dance, the music, the radiant people and situation is a heightened way of enriching ourselves, our body and our being. 

 

 

 

 

 The parry of the hits from the others and the many ways that you click the sticks. Gently, hard .. soft.... missed..... with ferocity, with indifference.......with a flirting glance ,

 a tantalising trance, ......with a aren’t we having fun glance. 

Also the eyes meet ,the eyes of a stranger, those of a friend, the glance of a dancer, the gaze of a trancer.

 

We ourselves benefit more than who ever we worship. We awaken the divine in us with all that energy shaking around and about. Having awakened the divine we should then have the best time possible, otherwise we will have woken and troubled our divinity for just a little enrichment and wasted the divine grace.