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AESTHETIC JOY –AN ESOTERIC JOURNEY
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The science of aesthetic joy The human body is certainly one piece of classic engineering designed to enable positive physical, emotional and above all spiritual enhancement. It is well upon the individual to understand, utilize and then usher in great sense of fulfillment. The Supreme has gifted us this wonderful Yantra or our body. In dance, one delves deep into the macrocosm and into the micro orbits of forces. The physical entity, the body form is never negated but it rather used as a VДЃhana or a vehicle that promotes to spiritual awakening. Rasa, the aesthetic enjoyment is realized when the life forces and dramatic stories are first appropriated within and then transmitted across to the world around -the RasikДЃs or enjoying entities, BhaktДЃs or devoted people as and others, in creative, ecstatic and emancipatory ways. The epitomic personage Abhinavagupta, a Kashmiri Tantrik Yogi and follower of Shaivism [devotion to Lord Shiva] calls RasДЃyana [the science of art, of the rasДЃs, or of vegetables juices, etc.), more or less the Indian equivalent of alchemy, an esoteric science. But as in any other field, a lot depends ultimately on the dedicated SДЃdhana or practice and devotional temperament. NДЃtya- DRAMA AND DANCE, a kind of meditation is intended to establish a link with the HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS. With self-surrender, the NДЃtya SДЃdhaka transports himself and others to the ecstatic reign of the supreme consciousness.
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