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My future tattoo

   Wed, August 8, 2007 - 2:26 PM
I'm crazy about tattoos, and I've been looking for one for last five years, and I think I've finaly found what I was looking for.
If all goes well with my dancing career in the next year or so, and if I'll have enough money, I'll reward myself with a tattoo of Dancing Shiva on my back.
I hope to do it for my 30th birthday.

And here is a little about the Shiva Nataraja:

In God's endless dance of creation, preservation, destruction and paired graces is hidden a deep understanding of our universe. 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."



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Thu, August 9, 2007 - 9:45 AM
I can completely see this on you, i love your choice.

i can't wait to see it!!!!!! : )

pls. put pics up once you have it done!
Sat, August 11, 2007 - 8:47 AM
That would be a really pretty motiv!

A was just told that you actually have to be really careful if you want to tatoo yourself. My cousin was selling for 2 years needles and coulors for tatoostudios and told me some stuff about the safety. I had no clue :-O
He said tahat its extremely important that you know what profile the needles have and what colours they use, cause some colors have poison, pesticide ingredients. The colours should have some kind of certifikate of the health ministerium. Usually they don't have it because they byu cheep stuff from Italy.
On the other hand he told me that we have in Croatia some really really goot tatoostudios with great artists ;-)
Ok, perhaps this is nothing new for you :-) caus I have never really been into tatoos, so that was new for me.
Thu, September 24, 2009 - 12:09 AM
shiva tattoo
Im actually getting dancing shiva on my back. If youve done your, let me know id like to see it, Im an acupuncturist and do yoga regularly, so its a big part of my life. Amazing symbol