From the abyss of Mauna, the womb of the formless void, the sacred stillness where no light stirs and no sound dares linger, a single breath — the first and eternal whisper of existence — awakens: Nāda, the seed of all becoming. It is followed by Tāla, the pulse and rhythm of time, which gives flesh and form to the formless, summoning life into being. And so, the Tāṇḍava, the cosmic Dance of creation and destruction, can begin. Together they shape the eternal, sacred architecture of existence. Within their rhythm, worlds are sung into life, only to rise and fall, crumble, collapse, dissolve, and be reborn in an endless circle again and again. Shyam 2025
