Masterpiece Nataraja - Lord Shiva Dancing 48"

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This hand made, bronze sculpture is a one-of-a-kind statue, hand cast by the artists of south India.

This wonderful Nataraja is not for sale and is part of Lotus Sculpture's permanent collection.

Special Features:

In the opinion of the owner of Lotus Sculpture, one of the best Indian bronzes in the United States.  The entire piece is a true lesson in sculptural proportion.  This piece was made 20 years ago by a true Chola bronze master.  The artist is now deceased.

The hands and feet are lifelike to the degree where you touch them you expect them to be soft, like skin.  Look at the pinky finger position on the hands delicately holding the agni and the tabla. 

The face captures Shiva's sublime expression.  Aloof yet compassionate, knowable yet distant.  The dwarf of ignorance who Shiva treads upon spectacular!  His horned head, the snake curled around his finger as his mustached, fanged mouth looks up to Shiva in helplessness.

The Symbolism of Shiva's Dance:

The symbolism of Siva Nataraja is religion, art and science merged as one. In God's endless dance of creation, preservation, destruction and paired graces is hidden a deep understanding of our universe. Aum Namah Sivaya.  Bhashya Nataraja, the King of Dance, has four arms. The upper right hand holds the drum from which creation issues forth.  The lower right hand is raised in blessing, betokening preservation.  The upper left hand holds a flame, which is destruction, the dissolution of form.  The right leg, representing obscuring grace, stands upon Apasmarapurusha, a soul temporarily earth-bound by its own sloth, confusion and forgetfulness.  The uplifted left leg is revealing grace, which releases the mature soul from bondage.  The lower left hand gestures toward that holy foot in assurance that Siva's grace is the refuge for everyone, the way to liberation.  The circle of fire represents the cosmos and especially consciousness.  The all-devouring form looming above is Mahakala, "Great Time."  The cobra around Nataraja's waist is kundalini shakti, the soul-impelling cosmic power resident within all.  Nataraja's dance is not just a symbol.  It is taking place within each of us, at the atomic level, this very moment.  The Agamas proclaim, "The birth of the world, its maintenance, its destruction, the soul's obscuration and liberation are the five acts of His dance." Aum Namah Sivaya.

Sloka 15 from Dancing with Siva