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… there is a just and permissible, a quite legitimate human enjoyment of these things, which is, to speak in the language of Indian psychology, predominantly sattwic in its nature. It is an enlightened enjoyment principally by the perceptive, aesthetic and emotive mind, secondarily only by the sensational, nervous and physical being, but all subject to the clear government of the buddhi, to a right reason, a right will, a right reception of the life impacts, a right order, a right feeling of the truth, law, ideal sense, beauty, use of things. The mind gets the pure taste of enjoyment of them, ''rasa'', and rejects whatever is perturbed, troubled and perverse. Into this acceptance of the clear and limpid ''rasa'', the psychic prana has to bring in the full sense of life and the occupying enjoyment by the whole being, ''bhoga'', without which the acceptance and possession by the mind, ''rasa-grahaṇa'', would not be concrete enough, would be too tenuous to satisfy altogether the embodied soul. This contribution is its proper function. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p3</ref>
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