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Dance is an accessory to bhakti yoga and cannot be separated from bhakti. The origin of dance is mentioned in the vishNu dharmottara. Reproducing that section here.
As some parts of the text are blurred, I have indicated a few missing words with "?"+
The story begins like this - When bhagavAn rose up from his bed in the Ocean of Milk to kill madhu and kaitabha, and retreive the Vedas for brahmA, lakshmI observed his walk and was mesmerised by his graceful gait+
अङ्गहारैः सुललितैस्तथा पादपरिक्रमैः । तथा भ्रमन्त तम् देव ददर्शायत् (?) लोचनाम्
[lakshmI, who only has eyes that see Hari, saw that God exhibiting beautiful movements of his limbs and strides of feet as he walked]+
His walk was something beautiful and very rare. I had explained in an earlier thread that he rarely walks in devaloka or in avatArAs as he has garuDa. Only in rAmAvatAra, he walked+
Hanuman tells bhIma - “चचार वसुधातलम्” - “rAma walked all around the Earth”.
The divine walk of bhagavAn, usually reserved for the muktAs, not seen even by gods, was manifested in front of those in bhUloka who don’t even realize what a great and rare sight that walk is!+
As some parts of the text are blurred, I have indicated a few missing words with "?"+
Bharatanatyam is a shastra. Natya Shastra. It is religious by character. The stupid adage 'Art has no religion' doesn't apply to Bharatham. https://t.co/zXRMm4PTpE
— SriVaishnava Alucard (\u092a\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0932\u0930\u093e\u092e\u093e\u0928\u0941\u091c\u0926\u093e\u0938\u0928) (@BMidou124) March 30, 2022
The story begins like this - When bhagavAn rose up from his bed in the Ocean of Milk to kill madhu and kaitabha, and retreive the Vedas for brahmA, lakshmI observed his walk and was mesmerised by his graceful gait+
अङ्गहारैः सुललितैस्तथा पादपरिक्रमैः । तथा भ्रमन्त तम् देव ददर्शायत् (?) लोचनाम्
[lakshmI, who only has eyes that see Hari, saw that God exhibiting beautiful movements of his limbs and strides of feet as he walked]+
His walk was something beautiful and very rare. I had explained in an earlier thread that he rarely walks in devaloka or in avatArAs as he has garuDa. Only in rAmAvatAra, he walked+
Hanuman tells bhIma - “चचार वसुधातलम्” - “rAma walked all around the Earth”.
The divine walk of bhagavAn, usually reserved for the muktAs, not seen even by gods, was manifested in front of those in bhUloka who don’t even realize what a great and rare sight that walk is!+