The stable or durable underlying emotion that a rasa is the perfected, tasted form of. Bharata names eight (love, mirth, grief, anger, energy, fear, disgust, wonder); each is the permanent mood that lives latent in every heart and is drawn out by a performance into its corresponding flavour.

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  Bharata counted eight of these flavours, each the cooked form of one stable underlying emotion, the sthayi-bhava , the permanent mood that lives in every human heart waiting to be drawn out.

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