Ananda Shankar Jayant fights cancer with dance:

"ANANDA SHANKAR JAYANTH "we can say that she created many wonders in two traditional dances of India i.e. bharatanatyam and kuchipudi. She discovered many beautiful secrets lying deep under these dances.

She talks about gender issues, philosophy and mythology using dance as she is a great performer and choreographer. She leads school named Shankarananda kalakshetra in Secunderabad and Hyderabad and she is a great scholar of dance and art.

In the talk show she says that:

She started her life with dance when she was four with the help of her mother. It's almost around four decades past in the path of dance. She was well trained and performed across the globe and she treated young and old alike and thought them her best in the dance. She won many awards and achievements. In the year 2007 she achieved a greatest glory in her life, for which every Indian dreams to win it i.e. Padmashri for her dedication to the dance.

She also says that what all knowledge and achievements she has won in her life dint help her to face the bitterest part of her life. The way she explained her bitter part of life is really a heart touching story. The way she explains it really shows her innocence or her poor knowledge towards that. It was July 1^st, 2008 when she came across the word carcinoma. Yes she is suffering from a dreadful danger i.e. breast cancer. She sat dumbstruck when she heard the words such as cancer, stage, grade etc.., she innocently says that for her cancer is just a zodiac sign, stage is where she performs and grades are which she got in school.

Later she realized that a new partner has come into her life to eat her completely whom she never welcomed. As a dancer she learned the navarasas which are anger, valor, disgust, humor and fear. For her fear was just an expression. But that day she realized fear is something different. She cried to hell and she asked her husband Mr.Jayant that is this end of the road and asked him whether she can't dance anymore. But her husband who is very supportive with his optimistic words encouraged her and said that no this is just a hiatus and you will be back to yourself soon to achieve your best.

Then she made up her mind to fight this danger. She says that she has complete control of her life by controlling three things they are her thoughts, her mind (images of the thoughts she created) and the action. She wanted to go to a place of healing, health and filled with happiness. She wanted to something that will drag her out form this situation. So she stopped her tears and she said "Cancer's only one page of my life and I won't allow this page to impact the rest of my life" this shows her boldness to face the situation with a cute smile.

She felt that she needs a great support to anchor her happiness so that she can ride out the cancer. Then she realized that she can do that only from her dance. She found all the things needed to rule out the cancer in her dance. She says dance is her strength, her energy, her passion and her life breath. But we can guess this isn't so easy and the same she felt. She gives examples saying that imagine yourself going bald in three days from beautiful... Facing such bad and horrible situations she felt like weeping. But she consoled herself by saying that fear and tears have no place in my life.

She started her life again just as when she was four. She brought herself, her body, her mind, her spirit into the dance studio and started learning reworking, relearning and regrouping. She felt it so painful but she dint let her hard work go in vain. Finally she won to move out the painful state of her mind.

But she felt that she still needs something to come out of this situation. Then she got the solution from metaphor which she learnt it from her mother at four. She was inspired by the Goddess Durga from whom she learnt to be fearless and she made a image of Durga in her every nuance, every attribute and her very own.

At last she made her dance as sharp as a laser and she made her dance practice as a schedule and placed it in between her treatment of chemo and radiation cycle. She danced several weeks after her surgery. She turned the page of cancer to the page of dance. Now she proudly says that cancer has been just one page of her life.

In her life she came across many setbacks, obstacles and challenges that life throws at us. Her story is the power of thought, choice and focus. This is purely possible with the dedication of mind to something. She proved that when mind and thoughts are controlled we can create wonders. Fighting with cancer is not an easy job to go.

I feel that one should take inspiration of her in order to face any tough situation of of life with a gentle smile.

Words said by Ananda Shankar Jayant

"My language called dance paints before you a canvas of life and beyond of our fallible self grouping in the darkness for that light of eternity "

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