{"id":365,"date":"2008-08-28T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2008-08-28T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T09:41:17","slug":"chapter-1-what-is-ras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet_books\/how-to-realize-ras\/chapter-1-what-is-ras\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 1 – What is ras?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Ras<\/em>‘ is something unearthly and beyond the Laws of Nature. Like Brahman, ras <\/em>is inconceivable and inexpressible. We can only realize ras<\/em> and cannot arrive at it with logic. Ras<\/em> transcends all thought-processes and gives us relish when our chitta<\/em> has attained the state of pure goodness and shines brilliantly. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Those who do not have the desire to relish ras<\/em> can never realize ras<\/em>. The author of S\u00e2hitya-Darpan says –<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Ras<\/em> is beyond the material world and it can be realized only by a rasik<\/em>.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Alank\u00e2r-Koustubh says –<\/span><\/p>\n

“Ras<\/em> creates magic” and “A feeling of \u2018WOW!!’ is the soul of ras<\/em>; if, after relishing something, we do not say \u2018WOW!!’ then it is not ras<\/em>.”<\/span>
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Suppose we see something so gorgeous that we have never seen before or we hear something so beautiful that we have never heard before, then we feel a kind of joy and our heart somersaults. Consequently, unknown to us, our eyes too bulge out. This is \u2018wonderment’. We call this thrilling experience as \u2018ras<\/em>‘.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alank\u00e2r-Koustubh also states –<\/span><\/p>\n

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“If some favorable objects (or incidents) come together to create such a joyful thrill in the heart, that stupefies our external as well as internal senses – then we can call such a delightful experience as \u2018ras’<\/em>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Srila Rupa Gosw\u00e2mip\u00e2d too has written –<\/span><\/p>\n

“A magical inexpressible relish that shoots across a heart blazing with goodness and is beyond of all human perceptions, it is \u2018ras’<\/em>.” – (B.R.S.2.5.132)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ras<\/em> is commonly of two types –<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n