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Nibbana                                      Picture by Dhammavidu  Bhikkhu







                   In this illustration the Nataraja-like figure is shown dancing above
                   the earth and against a starry background.  The Nataraja-like figure

                   here represents that one who can escape the power of ‘self’ – belief,
                   it’s cohorts, the cock, the pig, and the serpent, aka. the three root
                   defilements of greed, delusion, and aversion, and can, therefore,

                   operate without the problem of dukkha weighing them down
                   continually.  Such an one is said to dwell ‘above the world,’ but mentally,
                   of course.  Life is then a ‘light’ experience, hence the dancing figure of
                   Nataraja: one who dances through life unfettered by the usual human
                   hang-ups and problems, who dances to the rhythms of nature and

                   not those of the defilements.


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