Navratri day 6
N A G S W A R U P
(Form of a snake)
This is a photograph on which viewers typically spend the most time on at my exhibitions. A dancer, during the eve of Navratri, performs the classical Indian Bharatnatyam dance. In an intense moment of the dance while emulating a cobra, the dancer becomes one with her dance (and hence the cobra) as you can see in her eyes.
I’ve seen time and again in my life, musicians, painters, dancers shapeshifting in the midst of their artistic creation or performance, proving without doubt, that art is the way to the divine. That Art IS in fact the divine channeling itself through the artist.
DAY 6:
Kātyāyanī
Ma Katyayani is worshipped on the sixth day of Navratri. She is one of the most worshipped forms of Durga and is considered a destroyer of evil. She is the fiercest form of Navdurga and represent that divine principle behind the divine forces of nature which cause natural calamities. In Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s words, “She represents the anger that arises in creation to restore and revive the principles of truth and dharma.”
She is also helpful in removing the Maanglik Dosha for those with Mars in their first or second house.