The Dance of Siva Quotes

“Not my way of salvation, to surrender the world! Rather for me the taste of Infinite Freedom While yet I am bound by a thousand bonds to the wheel . . . In each glory of sound and sight and scent I shall find Thy infinite joy abiding: My passion shall burn as the flame of salvation, The flower of my love shall become the ripe fruit of devotion.”
― Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Shiva: Fourteen Essays

“The life or lives of man may be regarded as constituting a curve —an arc of time-experience subtended by the duration of the individual Will to Life.”
― Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Siva, Vol 1: Fourteen Indian Essays