In Sanskrit aesthetics rasa is the distilled emotion that a work of art evokes in a sensitive spectator. The Bengal Vaiṣṇava theologians made it a theology: devotion to Kṛṣṇa is the supreme rasa, and the Upaniṣadic saying that Brahman is rasa was read as meaning that God is love to be relished.
Rasa
Taste or flavour: aesthetic emotion in Indian poetics, and in devotion the relish of love for God.