rasa
Noun
Meaning
rasa (plural rasas)
An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work.
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Examples
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
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.
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
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.
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.
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.