Dance Of Destruction

Dance Of Destruction:

Swami Vivekananda wrote in his famous poem 'Kali the Mother':

Who dares misery love,
And hug the form of Death,
Dance in Destruction's dance,
To him the Mother comes.

The dance of destruction is the annihilation of the self - of all smallness, littleness, self-seeking, egocentricity. When all these get burnt up in  'jnanagni',  'the fire of divine Wisdom', then and only then, does the Mother come.

-Swami Atmapriyananda