The Nataraja from Dongtai Lu

Nataraja is a form of the Hindu God Shiva symbolising the cosmic dance of creation and destruction. One day I saw a Nataraja statue in the famous second hand market street Dongtai Lu and brought it home. My kids helped me to wash the statue and I placed Him in between our Buddha and Ganesha in our prayer altar. The Chinese have fengshui and the Indians Vastu Shastra. Whatever you call it, something was not right. After a week I decided to give it away to a yoga school and that was that.

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