It transforms an external experience into an internal feeling, which in turn enables us to form our society, our relations, and eventually ourselves. Each of us can be described by features dominated by a single emotion or a combination of emotions. Thus, it is safe to say that essentially rasa is in everything and everything has rasa-our everyday, our vulnerabilities, our struggles, and most of all our triumphs. Sadly, our hectic lifestyles are driving us farther away from our abilities to express and experience our emotions freely. Bounded by social restrictions, we, the new modern humans, are allowing ourselves to be held back by our liabilities.
In an effort to break these bondages, Rasas in Divine Relationships uniquely interweaves the concept of emotions, rasas, from the Natya Shastra (a treatise on the performing arts) and the lives and stories of deific couples, to lead as an example. These larger-than-life characters with extraordinary qualities, upon whom we mortals base our belief system, are depicted as being vulnerable to some of the base desires and vices, thereby making them relatable for the present generations.
Before Covid, Shalini ran an NGO called Pragati Kendra, which supported underprivileged children in their education and encouraged underprivileged women to become economically independent.
She had decided to prove her point. His divinity, her devotion towards him, their love for each other-nothing could prevent her from taking the steps she had taken. Her ascetic husband had refuted every aspect of natural human existence, claiming the material world to be superficial, or worse, irrelevant. Parvati was the protector of the world. Equilibrium was the law of nature, and no force of the gods and their powers could convince her otherwise.
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