Noun
rasa (plural rasas)
An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work.
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. Stanislav Grof
Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality. Nayef Al-Rodhan
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. Richard Powers
The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin. David Grinspoon
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me. Thom Mayne
Abhinavagupta offers for the first time a technical definition of rasa which is the universal bliss of the Self or Atman colored by the emotional tone of a drama. Source: Internet