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Vol. 3, Life's Creative Forces: Rasa Shastra
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Four Types of Women
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Hastini
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Vol. 3, Life's Creative Forces: Rasa Shastra
Four Types of Women
Hastini
Hastani is greedy and impulsive. Voice, movement, words, all show that self-indulgence and passion predominate in her. She does not form any deep or serious attachment in life; and she will suddenly break a thread which unites, with a word of anger, or a hasty feeling of displeasure or disagreement. Her actions are untimely; there is an abruptness in her ways that jars peace or friendship. She does not appeal to women, who are on their guard against her and fear her; nor does she prove a pleasant and lasting comrade even to her own mate.
From the ideal of Padmani to the idea of Hastani, there is seen to be increasing force in the power of expressing emotion, but also a lessening of the capability of holding any lasting attachment. In Chitram there is perhaps an equal balance between depth of feeling and beauty in expression of feeling; while in Padmani there is an absorption in the ideal which means selflessness. And this is actually more fruitful in producing the beauty that gives solace and calm and the glow of happiness, than anything else in life.
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