Rasas are emotions, the plethora of feelings experienced by our gods, fellow humans, and even our\nmighty animal kingdom. It transforms an external experience into an internal feeling, which in turn\nenables us to form our society, our relations, and eventually ourselves. Each of us can be described\nby features dominated by a single emotion or a combination of emotions. Thus, it is safe to say\nthat essentially rasa is in everything and everything has rasa—our everyday, our vulnerabilities, our\nstruggles, and most of all our triumphs. Sadly, our hectic lifestyles are driving us farther away from\nour abilities to express and experience our emotions freely. Bounded by social restrictions, we, the\nnew, modern humans, are allowing ourselves to be held back by our liabilities.\n\nIn an effort to break these bondages, Rasas in Divine Relationships uniquely interweaves the concept\nof emotions, rasas, from the Natya Shastra (a treatise on the performing arts) and the lives and\nstories of deific couples, to lead as examples. These larger-than-life characters with extraordinary\nqualities, upon whom we mortals base our belief system, are depicted as being vulnerable to some\nof the base desires and vices, thereby making them relatable for the present generations.\n
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