Aldous Huxley describes the aspect of Lord Nataraja

The great writer Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception, Island) describes the "Dancing Shiva" image of Lord Nataraja and its immense significance and comprehensiveness. 

Spiritual Energy

"The Hill Arunachala constitutes the most powerful concentration of spiritual energy on this planet.

For here the spirit of light has assumed an inert mineral form analogous to the apparent dullness of dreamless sleep.

But, as in sleep, there blazes at its heart the column of light, the Tejo Lingam of Siva, that rears to infinity.

Down this column, as down a pathway cut through space by the beams of the full moon, swarm the unearthly siddhas who, while on earth, reside within the caverns of the hill."

Kenneth Grant

[Photo courtesy of D. McCambridge]