How can someone be so talented, so intelligent, so knowledgeable and yet so childlike? When she smiles, you also smile without realizing it.

What grace, composure, and maturity!!! She is full of glow and radiance of knowledge! Accidentally landed on the video and initially, watched for her beauty...but then soon got captivated by her talk and the deep philosophy of linking classical Indian dance forms with Advaita

This explains why her dance is so perfect. She has a very clear understanding.

she had got a divine aura about herself....its like if I meet her in real, i would say "PRANAM"

Gorgeous, lovely, supremely talented and divinely feminine ❤️🌸

Rukmini Vijayakumar.. talent, beauty, grace, humility, intellect, creativity, attitude.. the list goes on..

I have recently discovered her artform, videos, and conversations. She is amazing.

Explaining Vedantic concepts in the art form you practice is an untouched topic predominantly. Learning that you were groomed by Swami Dayananda Saraswat Maharaj teachings makes me derive how you could be such a rare amalgam! Explaining Advaita in simplest terms of Ego and Witness or the Drashta and the roles played drives the philosophy into our understanding well. As always in adoration 🌷

This was music to my ears. Such great philosophy broken down and explained beautifully for everyone to understand. And your grace and simplicity has touched my heart. Hari Om

Beautifully said.. “Knowing” and “understanding” are related concepts, but they’re not the same. Each is a distinct mental state involving cognitive grasp: Knowing is static, referring to discrete facts, while understanding is dynamic, describing the ability to analyze and place those facts in context to form a big picture. you showed the bigger picture to every one... great soul.. respect you mam

It's refreshing to see an artist/performer with such a wonderful prespective.

Brilliant dancer, superb speech, placidly intelligent woman and highly technical person.

Your voice is so pure and soothing!!

Namaste. Have been a follower of Ms Rukmini and her dance. but this one left me speechless. shades of Kishoritai (Amondkar), who described Brahman through swar and music. Truly a privilege to have an atma like this in our midst.

She's so eloquent, beautiful and intelligent. She's truly inspired me to take up Bharatnatyam once again. ❤️

Really good understanding of Advaita. Such a talented girl. ❤

Smile on your face while expressing and the way of explaining the concept is extraordinary....

That Grace on Chechis Face is exemplary..

Everything in Indian tradition is about moving towards self realization. Thanks

She is perfectly right of what she is from 8:50 to 9:50.... and whole rest of the speech is excellent.... beautiful artist!!!

What a beautiful explanation. Love from Turkey!! ❤️❤️

her smile :) and grace. So beautiful

So nice of you madam for sharing your thoughts. Hare Krishna.

You are blessed to have such meditative experiences at such young age.

What a meticulous way explaining the psychological 'Flow' state .. It would be a pleasure to learn about Rukmini's own spiritual practice and insights.

You are such a beautiful woman! Beautiful like a goddess! You filled my heart with joy with your talk. You talk like you dance. You allowed us to peep into your beautiful thoughts and mind through your words. Not only do you dance so well, you speak so very well too. May the goddess give immense strength to you to spread the joy of dance to everyone.

This what is called realizing essence of every move of your nritya sadhana.

Such a deep and profound understanding and a wonderful talk. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Speech having such deep meaning...m totally influenced🙏

Moving inward through realisation of True self within all , One truth , so the false identity is cleared ,we just become void of wrong identifications & we are just present as One universal consciousness .

So simply and nicely put .people like you are truly inspiring to the present generation,just like to my daughter.Keep inspiring.God bless you 👃

Wow! So much insight connecting the dance, the dancer and the creator, the Love, the lover, and the beloved. Bravo! you talk so openly about the love and the making, giving the real beautiful divine connection to it, that too at the oneness conference of Chinmaya. I think You should do more videos like this explaining the connection between dance and spirituality. You have good knowledge and deep insight about it and you express it so well. This is something hard to find from others.

She has put advaita vedanta in such a beautiful way to make everyone understand. Thanks to her effort

Profound. An eye-opener. Well- presented. Thank you kindly for sharing your great wisdom

Great speech as her dancing; i was very much impressed by her statement that" You cannot Judge Ravana and act as Ravana together"; very much true. While we perform things we seldom judge ourselves, because we are one with our actions and there is no higher level from where we observe ourselves. Only when you detach mentally and emotionally from your own actions you can do that. That is the level of a Yogi. Again from the spiritual point of view every body is in the ladder of evolution, what ever be the present state of existence, because ultimately there is nothing other than Athman. All evils are the byproduct of ignorance or Maya. Only when the light of realization shines forth within evils end. Lastly i would love to add, the shortest-cut to spiritual experience is through performing arts. Even without the burdensome intellection it takes us to the supreme Rapture, even though it is transient. But that gives us an insight that such a level exists for every one to achieve.

Thank you for sharing your perspective of how dance relates to spirituality! The authenticity of your thoughts, coming from your intense experiences as a dancer, was very apparent and hence very powerful! I must say all through your lecture, i still could not get over how amazingly graceful and beautiful a woman you are!

She completely defined the character of an 'artist' or any 'role' we play in life. superb, superb. She cleared my doubt that when we take up a role we have to completely submerge our ego and give that 100 percent required to do justice for that. Thank you Rukminiji your speech is as adorable as your dance. God bless .

You are really blessed to have these insights and to have experienced that oneness state. When you said "you cease to exist..... Only dance exists" I instantly recalled a song from Shankarabharanam movie which has a line "Music is the ladder for Advaita Sidhi and Amaratva Labdhi"... Truely Indian art forms are divine and practitioners like you are blessed 🙏

Very well spoken. These concepts are experienced by all of us in our day to day lives, albeit momentarily, while we are playing our respective roles in this vast 'rangamancha'. Great to hear Rukmini Ji. Hari Om.

Maybe one of the best speeches I’ve heard in a long time... one I can really relate to 🙏

your voice is so soothing

The clarity and simplicity were very touching

Truly well explained with simplicity on roles that we play. Thank you so much

Dancing is an art of presentation, and so is public speaking. It makes a lot of sense that she pulls off both successfully. The lack of pretentiousness (something all too common in spiritual talkers) helps a great deal too.

Dance is divine .....so are you !!!🙏

Mam, You are very impressive in all the way.. You are so inspiring.. I wish I could meet you once..

She is a very intelligent person along with a dancer !

Beautiful explanation 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 Yes... ‼️ It's actually called Ekatmabodha... ❤️

Such a fabulous Bharatham dancer she is .

8:58 I think she is talking about the 'flow' state or the state where you become your action and your ego is reduced to a minimum.

Hope u become a mystic one day like ur param pujya Gurudev....let the divinity be expressed in every aspect of ur life..u have made it through ur dance which is more subtler aspect for which I give a hats off to you...see you with flying colors...lots of luv from Odisha

8:41 The dancer speaks the truth which couldn't be communicated !!! This speaking is the most beautiful as well as important than the dancing. "....if we extended to life itself , that feeling can extend to humanity at last....and we can then realise...." _Advaita_ !!!

14:10 someone signalling to end the excellent sharing !!! The response reply in _Abhinaya_ !!!

You are so blessed dear..... You are born for this.

Rukmini para America.... traduccion xfabor....

Amazed ,at the clearity of understanding the concepts

She has great knowlegde of the scriptures. A combination of Ramana Maharishi, Mandukya Upanishad . God BLESS her. It is great to hear her. Better than hearing any baba

Gracefully beautiful!

What I think is. the Yoga is the source to all. The dance = Yoga Asana Vinyasa + Music. Music = Sound from Om and so on. The Root is the Yoga from the Tantra.

I can hear you talk ofrecer, specially when you speak with such clarity, knowledge and connection to your believe, culture, and religion. I hope to have the pleasure to be in the same room with you one day. Namaste.

Oh Divine Mother, doer of all things, awaken me to your heart, The Heart.

How Beautiful she is,and intelligent, yani bold and beautiful

I must bow down to the teachers and parents who has brought us the light in the face of darkness.

She's beautiful

Simply beautiful, intelligent speech

Madam your speech gave me my answers those I was looking for. 🙏🙏

Actually beautifully said.now I understand dance 😃😃😃

Wonderful My sister

Very brilliant n informative Person ...Speaks very well...love n blessings💟💟💟🙏🙏🙏🌻🌻🌻

She is an excellent artist and that is why she is at back.

Very bright personality 💯🙏🏻🚩

Very well spoken Ma'am. You have explained it in very easy terms

So beautifully explained.. I wish you had elaborated on the Brahman bit.

Brilliant Artist. Rukmini Vijayakumar 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

The thought process and the parallels that she is drawing is fascinating! I really learnt something. There was one aspect though that was not covered, perhaps for lack of time. That is, in each one of us there is the quality of raavana and the quality of raama as well. One can view the individual's (self) role in the advaita context (complete annihilation of one's ego) or as non-advaitic, meaning with a degree of duality where there is the false ego but not complete annihilation of ego. Bhakti saints have come in both advaitic thought (Thayagaraja, Kshetrayya) and non-advaitic (Annamcharya, Purandara Dasa). The other point is on witness as truth (sat). Where she draws the parallel of the witness as being present in the "third muktayam in the second svara", which I see this as a matter of muhurtham or timing coming from rhythms (in the universe). As witness is non-judgmental.

Beautifully explained

MY FAVOURITE DANCER RUKMINI VIJAYAKUMAR

Beautiful inside and outside .

Intelligent , beautiful women. She reminds me of Osho's talks. In one talk he discuss the same situation. wonderful. Thank you

"All the world a stage and all the men and women are merely players."

Vedic hinduism had shaped this Civilization which We know today 🙏.

Advaita Vs Natya having deeper link is there, you explained with sense, logic, practical because In Atharva veda formula Ayamatham Brhama - Be a Oneness. keep on explore.

Oh my goodness!! I didn't know about you..Sorry for that!! What a brilliant women you are!

Such eloquence in her speech!

Speechless betaji keep it up awesome your religious knowledge superb dream come true

Overwhelmed

I just cant believe that she is 41 now 😮

I can listen i can see her dance whole day. So soothing voice brilliant dancer n cute actor. Ur personality s so positive rukmini. U said a tamil word 'kanak', means count dat was gud. Im very interested dancing from childwood but bcz my dad didnt have fee to provide i n sister couldn't continue bharatnatyam. Nw also my body dance automatically if someone dance. I want to be ur shishya. Pls teach me.

So pleasant!

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Rukmini Arundale of this century, maybe.

She is so profound in her thoughts, but to explain & express those thoughts to make us numbskulls to understand the severe intricacies of the intrinsic values jotted down in the vedas is at another supernatural level. God bless this mighty & beautiful soul. I am so so glad that I found this video. Amaaaaaszing.

This is the BEST explaination.

Very insightful.

A true daughter of India.

Holy Shizzz She is a Cutie...!

Awesome

Excellent Elaboration

She is a great Bharatnatyam dancer.