Cosmic Play

In the movie WarGames (Badham, 1983), Matthew Broderick plays a teenager named David Lightman who hacks into a Silicon Valley computer that

Handelman and Shulman (1997) summarize the fundamental intuitions and recurring perceptions that seem to pervade all of these panels:

Shiva’s dance exemplifies this internalizing erotic process.

In various myths, Shiva assumes the form of a yogi. Through internal practices, known as tapas, or "internal heating," Shiva achieves great

From time to time, Shiva and Parvati play for kisses and erotic recombination is the result. However, more often the dice game separates th

Handelman and Shulman (1997) tell us that Andhaka/Bhrngin is the unavoidable and logical outcome of the dice game.

The adjective "dicey" means involving or fraught with danger or risk, and that’s a good way to describe what happens when Shiva plays.

The mythology of Shiva’s dice game (Handelman & Shulman, 1997) explains the creation of the phenomenal world and goes something like...

The caves of Elephanta and Ellora contain sculpted stone panels that along with the linga (the phallus of Shiva) depict several...

The Hindu god Krishna, a manifestation of Vishnu, known for his playful and mischievous lila stories, inspiring festivals and devotion.