The Nava Rasas of the Positive Field

Emotions and the way you deal with them, create the positive field.  The Mind is a field, which is filled with positive and negative emotions. The nava rasas can be your guide to understanding the nine emotions. The nava rasas are a 2000 year old Indian concept on emotions. The nine emotions have been built into a system of dance called Natya Shastra by Sage Bharata. Rasa means rapture or relish and 37 chapters of the Natya Shastra are devoted to eight of them, as Bharatha does not consider ‘Shantha’ or peace a major rasa.  Bharata’s Natya Shastra even described each rasa with a different color.

The Nine Rasas are

1.    Love

2.    Humor

3.    Compassion

4.    Peace

5.    Chivalry

6.    Anger

7.    Fear

8.    Abhorrence

9.    Wonder