This blog is a collection of things that have interested me and include random jottings, notes and essays on social, political and cultural issues as seen from India. They also importantly cover those of my profession i.e on management, business and organisations. It is possibly a potpourri gleaned as they occur as I make sense of my world.
“Raso vai saha. Rasam hyevayam labdhva anandi
bhavati” Yajur Veda, Taittiriya Upanishad 2.7 “For He indeed is Rasa, having obtained which, one attains
bliss”.
Padmapani, Ajanta, 450-480CE
Art
experience or encounter with an art object is not an intellectual engagement
but an intuitive insight, of feeling and resonance with one’s life experience.
It is “an experience in being and not in knowing”. In the last essay we
examined the direct encounter with an art object through its form rupa which is sensory. The content of
the art object artha is revealed not
merely by its sensory features but revealed as structural, metaphoric and
suggestive meaning through inference and intuition. What has not been discussed
is its capacity for resonance with feeling or emotion that is central to art. What
we need is an idea that integrates the sensory data and emotive content into an
epistemic (knowledge) framework. This framework is provided by Rasa, the subject of this essay.
