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camatkāra, really speaking, properly means the action being done by a tasting or enjoying subject (Camataḥ karaṇam); in other words, by the enjoying subject, he who is immersed in the vibration (Spanda) of a marvellous enjoyment (Adbhutabhoga). It may be thought of either as a form of mental cognition (1) consisting of direct experience, or of imagination (4), or of remembrance (a) which nevertheless is manifested in a direct manner to its ordinary nature. As Kalidasa says in Ramyāņi vikṣya etc. (. V.2), there is a disquiet in the mind of a happy man on seeing beautiful objects etc., and he remembers in his inner soul, though vaguely, association of former births deeply implanted in him. In any case, it is a form of perception - in which what appears (is just a feeling, for example) love, consisting of a tasting. (in other words, a perception characterized by the presence of a generalized feeling, (love, anger, etc.). For this reason, i.e., because it is not conditioned by further specifications, this perception is apt to become the object of relish and, for that reason, it is neither a form of ordinary cognition, nor is it erroneous, nor ineffable, nor like ordinary perception (i.e., reproduction of it, in Sankuka's language), nor does it consist of super-imposition (as when wrong knowledge follows after the right one is vitiated). We may call it a state of intensification to indicate that it is not limited by space etc.; call it a reproduction to mean that it is a production that repeats the feelings (an operation that temporally follows the feelings); and, call it a combination ( विषयसामग्री ) of different elements in the sense of the Vijñañavāda (or the idealistic Buddhism according to which everything that exists is pure consciousness or perception). Rasa is, in any case, simply and solely a mental state which is the matter of cognition on the part of a perception without obstacles and consisting in relish.
The elements which eliminate the obstacles (Vighnas) are the determinants, etc. Also, in the day to day world, the
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