sahridaya
सहृदय sahṛdaya"One who has a heart": the sensitive, cultivated spectator or reader capable of tasting rasa. For Abhinavagupta, aesthetic sensitivity (sahridayata) and spiritual sensibility are one capacity; the person who lacks it he calls ahridaya, heartless.
Where this term appears
- Rasa: emotion, beauty, and the arts as a spiritual science Philosophy
Running through all of it is a figure he loved, the sahridaya , "the one who has a heart." Not everyone can taste rasa.
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
Rasa, he said, is manifested , revealed through dhvani , poetic suggestion, in the heart of the sensitive spectator, the sahridaya .