Rasa is one of
those Sanskrit words that has a long history and is not easily translated in to
English. In ancient Sanskrit (here we are talking about thousands of years
ago) rasa meant the sap of a tree. (Wikipedia) The sap of a tree
flows and contains the essence of the tree. Gradually poets began to use
"rasa" to apply to the essence and flow in music, dance, art and
poetry. It came to mean the emotions of creativity and eventually
spirituality and by the time of the Upanishads nearly 3000 years ago, rasa would
be used to describe the divine nature of the gods. A little over 1000
year ago, the word came to be associated with Krishna. Chanting the Hare
Krishna could produce the transformational experience that would result in
healing and wholeness. Some Jews, Christians and Muslims can
experience this in their prayers and meditations, musicians in their music,
physicists in Quantum Physics. It is about a higher level of
conscious. It is what I feel while listening to the final chorus of the
Rolling Stone's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" while watching
a sunrise.
Decades ago riding, in the back of a pick-up truck, My good buddy Rick and I were talking philosophy, Truth and Counter-truth I told him—waddya mean? Life is both real and an illusion--particle-wave duality We are flesh and we are spirit—50 years later, my flesh Has lower back pain and sciatica but the spirit still loves Riding in the back of pick-up trucks—which is now illegal
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