On Śaiva Terminology: Some Key Issues of Understanding

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Conceptualising Bhāvana: How do contemplative Hindu traditions inform understanding emotions and well-being?

“…Briefly, scholars have translated bhāva or bhāvana as a personal and a particularised emotion, whereas, rasa has been understood as the transformation of a particular individual emotion towards a universal affect and insight/compassion. Rasa as transformed affect is a unique contribution of IKT and therefore closest to the idea of fluidity and a vertical transformation of affect as consciousness – Cidrasa (Bansat-Boudon, 2014).…”