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Emotional state. In music there are nine: Shringaar (sensual), Raudra (anger), Hasya (happy), Vibhatsaya (disgust), Veera(heroic), Karuna (sympathy), Bhayanak (fear), Adabhuta (wonder), and Shanta (peace)
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Krishna's divine dance with the gopis, the grand celebration of their conjugal love.
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Essence of experiencing in music, it implies strong connection between musical ideas and their emotional impart on listeners.
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The flavour to be realized in the aethistic emotion SAMPOORNA All the seven notes
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When the Paramchayta was made accessible to earthlings through a magnified capacity of enjoyment, it was called "Rasa", that is, the juice of blessed energy.
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juice, flavor' – an essential fluid of yogic, alchemical or Tantric practice. The semen feminile.
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organc juices (Hindi).
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an emotion or feeling
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Essence or emotions. Very important in the fine arts. There are nine basic Rasas (Nava Rasas): surprise, peace, heroism, sadness, anger, fear, romance, humor, and horror.
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Sentiment; the aesthetic basis of the Indian arts; nine rasas (nava rasa or navras) are commonly recognised
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Essence. Divine is the rasa or principle of delight in Yoga.
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An aesthetic theory which classifies sentiments into nine primary categories: love, humor, pathos, violence, heroism, terror, wonder, abhorrence, wonder, and peace. Also mood.
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"The affective state generated by an aesthetic performance." (Neuman 275)
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a feeling or emotion portrayed by a raaga or song. Bhakti rasa (devotion), karuNaa rasa (kindness), veera rasa (braveness), and shringaara rasa (love) are the most common. Some raagas and songs have more than one rasa
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Lit. juice, the essence.
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Senses delight all and have delighted always, but Indian theorists were perhaps the earliest to perceive the delight of senses as the essence of being - a phenomenon of mind sublimating spiritually.
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Rasa is a musical collaboration between an American singer and a German cellist, which draws heavily on Indian devotional music (see also: Bhajan) and classical Western music. ---- Rasa was formed in 1998 by multi-instrumentalist, Hans Christian, and Kim Waters, a singer, illustrator and devotee of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
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