NAVARASAS_BIBATSA

NAVARASAS-BIBATSA

BIBATSA

Bibatsa,  emotion  disgusting and nauseating

Viewing   coarser and   graceless something

Things below human dignity

Offend sense of   morality.

Heard   Surpanaka , sister of Ravana , story

In   Ramayana , a female demon story

Rama, Son of King   Dasaratha  in exile

Moved   in forest   Panchavati   for a while.

Surpanaka struck with arrows of Cupid

With power of witchcraft disguised her form splendid

Alluring figure approached Rama, Rama spurned her advances

Rama shows no interest, Rama monogamous.

Suggested her marry His brother Lakshmana

Good looking, good conduct, promising, valiant Lakshmana

Lakshmana   suggested, she   be   second   wife of Rama

Besides    His   devoted, dutiful   wife   Sita.

Humiliated and jealous Surpanaka

 Her attack directed on Sita

Lakshmana   intolerant, immediately react

Cut off her nose, Surpanaka sped to Lanka fast.

Hear story of Prince Siddharta, young   prince smart

Saw suffering in old age and death in disgust

Disgust transformed into sorrow, introspection and peace

Turned into Gautama Buddha, enlightened one

Bibatsa rasa of separating lovers

Thirukkural   saying   you   hear

Sellamai undale  enakku  urai  mortru  nin

Valvaravu   vazzhorku urai

In English what lover  means, listen to me

If you are talking about not leaving me, tell me

Otherwise if  it  is  about  your   returning   soon

Tell that  to someone who will survive then.

K.S.V.SESHADRI

NAVARASAS_KARUNA

NAVARASAS _ KARUNA

KARUNA

Karuna , grief and compassion feeling

Sympathy, fellow feeling in suffering
Compassion elevating one to divine

In lives of needy, welcome silver line.

Impersonal sorrow in one awakening

Humans conditions, their suffering

In young, pity and neglect

In old , waning   strength   reflect.

Over the globe discrimination presence

Suffering in poverty and suppression

Extend helping hands providing unfortunate millions

Work your ways with your compassion.

Education prime driver in transformations

Directs growth and   better   modernization

Need arduous working women,   better   treatment

Elevate and overcome discrimination.

Karuna of people in power and possession

Certainly a source of elevation

Of the down trodden on earth

Pride in  progress, satisfying much.

K.S.V.SESHADRI

NAVARASAS _ADBHUTA

 NAVARASAS

ADBHUTA    OR   WONDER

Human life , a rich fabric sure

Events in life add color and texture

Happenings, threads  kindling emotions

Add hue, shades, colors  in actions.

Cause   and   emotion   well   knit

Difficult separating   it

Navarasas ,  one   experiences   in   life

 Portrayed   poets , dancers , writers, nice.

Adbhuta   wonder, surprise, curiosity

Occurs   due to divinity

Astonishment in us something magical

Appreciation   goes   well   beyond normal.

Success of king in battle

Magical   feats   of   god   that   puzzles

Divinity of almighty’s presence

In some form or other you sense.

Bali humbled by Vamana  in  Viswaroopam

Rama’s lifting of Siva dhanus in Seetha ‘s  Swayam varam

Dorakuna ituvanti seva of Saint Thyagaraja

In Sixties, man landing on the moon, an adbhuta

K.S.V.SESHADRI

                                                                                                       

NAVARASAS_BHAYANAK

NAVARASAS_BHAYANAK

BHAYANAK   OR   FEAR

Rasa of an agitated mind

Heart perplexed you find

Confused eyes, cowed down through fear

Of   approaching   evil,   in heart  a tremor.

Fear you know , negative energy

Saps your ability to act properly
Courage in you leaks out fine

Like a leak in gas pipe line.

Birds face turns pale, know why

On seeing a hawk down from sky

Trembles and looks anxious

No  movement , condition precarious.

Fear caused by ignorance

Mind creates imagination

Ego overcomes fear

Otherwise mind prevails over.

Overcome fear with inner strength, the best

Controller of body, mind intellect

We plan based on our past many

But react to unplanned karmic destiny.

K.S.V.SESHADRI

NAVARASA_HASYA

NAVARASAS-HASYA

HASYA

Rasa, flavor of art, object, or work

Bhava  feelings expressed by  performer

Hasya, comedy or mockery or humor

Brings laughter, smile and   cheer .

Krishna tales of stealing butter

Taunting  gopikas and Vastrabharana

Tales that bring laughter

Hasya rasa cheerful mood blower

Krishna tales plenty

Bhavas   flows like honey

Comedy   fills   our heart with laughter

Laughter    the   best  medicine  ever.

Laughter an emotion of humans alone

Proved as a rich hearing therapy

Beautiful masks of the actors

Fills   laughter and  peace in observer.

K.S.V.SESHADRI

NAVARASAS_RAUDRA

NAVARASAS -RAUDRA

RAUDRA   OR   ANGER

Anger an emotion in all

Into two categories fall

Righteous anger, over injustice or disrespect

Selfish  anger over self - expectation   regret.

Emotion with dominance of aggression

Falling below an expectation

Discover   things,   seemingly   strange

Anger at times, energises change.

A creative impulse generator overcomes rage

Over injustice in life, its heart’s rage

Nature a tutor, cure for rage

Ocean waves rage and calm, a   sage.

Anger of mother towards child instructive

Anger of teacher towards students corrective

Anger of king towards subjects constructive

Anger above all is objective.

 In life,  anger causes rage and fury

Thoughts add like fuel to fire easily

Overcome   anger   surely   easy

Stop your thoughts,   smile   becomes   easy.

K.S.V.SESHADRI

NAVARASAS_SHANTA

NAVARASAS

SHANTA

Shanta   a rasa of relaxation

Yogic super conscious experience

Body, mind, ego, intellect at rest

You achieve it through meditation best.

Anger, love, jealousy, fear, courage has no place

Air, the element, gives calmness, rest, exhaustion safe

Need to balance needs and desires

Meditation,  the  natural peace provider. 

Debts three, to ancestors, universe, and teacher

Pay to ancestors raising children

Pay to universe through self- less service

Pay to teacher through teaching.

Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ

tát savitúr váreṇ(i)yaṃ

bhárgo devásya dhīmahi

dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt

Walk in a forest, a  feast  of  nature’s  beauty

Watch waves of ocean or sea

Climb the mountains with sound of music

God’s gift, scenes   enchanting,  providers  of  Peace.

K.S.V.SESHADRI