A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics

mind-and-cognition

• literature is not something in which writers engage to produce rasa in characters like Rama, but rather to make sensitive people feel aesthetic bliss

  POLL-RASA-RC-209

• if one were to have an awareness of the pleasure and pain as experienced exclusively by some other person, one would necessarily have an awareness of some corresponding emotion in oneself

  RRCI-RC-307

• Rasa comes to light at seemingly the same moment as the literal meaning; when predominant, it becomes the very soul of implicature

  POLL-RASA-RC-119

education-and-formation

• The comic may be described as an imitation of the erotic, and the tragic rasa as an effect of the violent; their superintending deities: Vishnu for the erotic, Rudra for the violent

  RRCI-RC-358

self-and-identity

• it is the individual emotions themselves, as they present themselves, that become individual rasas

  RRCI-RC-263

• Since rasa had become something pertaining to the audience, a new epistemology appropriate to that new ontology was required

  RRCI-RC-111