The "semblance of rasa": a flavour gone wrong, an emotion aimed at an improper object or pitched in the wrong key (desire for another's spouse, say, or a one-sided love), which the trained connoisseur registers as a false note. The theory that aesthetic taste, like a scripture, can be counterfeited.

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• Rasa: emotion, beauty, and the arts as a spiritual science Philosophy →

  …ay, or a love that only one side feels, curdles into what they called rasabhasa , the semblance of rasa, a false note the trained palate catches at once.

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