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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Ten Rasas

Ten rasas favorable to conjugal love, rasas that are:
  1. astonishment, 
  2. dread, 
  3. anger, 
  4. ghastliness, 
  5. respect for elders or superiors, 
  6. compassion, 
  7. chivalry, 
  8. laughter, 
  9. neutrality, and 
  10. conjugal love one after the other. 
Source
http://christmuslim.blogspot.com/2015/05/gopala-champu.html
http://wikikrishna.com/index.php?title=Conclusion_of_the_Five-Chapter_Description_of_the_Rasa-Dance

In secluded place with each gopi
  1. Wandering in the forest, Krsna and gopis saw in the full moon's light many wonderful varieties ofbirds, beasts, vines, and trees, some They had known before and some They had never known before. In this way They tasted the rasa of astonishment.
  2. Sometimes They entered forest groves filled with wild bees gathering pollen from hosts of flowers. The gopis became afraid. Krsna calmed them with sweet words. In this way the gopis experienced the rasa of dread.
  3. When sometimes a bold black bee stung a gopi and brought to her difficultto-remove tears, Krsna, His ewyes now become like red lotus flowers almost touching His shark-shaped earrings, violently punished that bee, striking him with a formidable long-stemmed pastime-lotus-flower. In this way Krsna enjoyed the rasa of anger.
  4. Sometimes a gopi, her splendid face filled with charming playfulness, saw a lotus-flower growing from the dry ground and (unaware that some species of lotus grow not in ponds but on dry land) became filled with shock and horror. In this way that gopi experienced the rasa of ghastliness.
  5. Sometimes, learning the arts of sweet warbling from a group of parrots, a gopi, now them her teachers and herself their student, would sing very sweetly. In this way she experienced the rasa of being respectful to elders or superiors. 
  6. Sometimes, seeing that in the course of Their agitated pastimes they had crushed some graceful buds on a flowering vine, Krsna and ther gopis shed a few tears from Their eyes. In this way They experienced the rasa of compassion. 
  7. Sometimes, to break into pieces the great festival of their pride, Krsna engaged the graceful banana-tree-thighed gopis in pastimes of amorous battle. In this way He a they enjoyed the rasa of chivalry.
  8.  Sometimes, seeing Their shadows move here and there in exaggerated ways as They enjoyed amorous pastimes, Krsna and the gopis would laugh greatly. In this way They enjoyed the rasa of laughter. 
  9. Sometimes, exhausted after enjoying many pastimes, Krsna and the gopis, feeling Their hearts renounce the happiness They formerly felt by touching each other, now happily closed Their eyes in sleep. In this way They experienced the rasa of neutrality.
  10.  Sometimes, even though already exhausted by enjoying many wild amorous pastimes, Krsna and the gopis continued to enjoy again and again, staying awake the whole night, awake and always plunged in the ocean of passionate amorous pastimes. In this way Krsna and His gopi-beloveds enjoyed pastimes of conjugal love. 

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