For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish

Kali's Hallowe'en Costume

Every year we do a Hallowe'en lecture and its often its these that are my favorites over the yeas, like the one we did last year about Vampires, Kali and Christ | A Hallowe'en Special and the one from the year before on Is Kali Worship Devil Worship? and just spooky things like that which, as you know, is very much our "bhāva", i.e flavor. As such, this year I want to talk about Abhinava Gupta's rasa-vāda, the doctrine of "flavors" in aesthetics which I never tire of discussing and making a f...