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Tattva 20 — Taste (Rasana)
The power to taste: the subtle faculty of perceiving flavor.
Rasana is the capacity for taste — the subtle power of perceiving flavor that works through the tongue. The fourth of the five knowing-faculties, it is how the embodied self savors what it takes in. As a tattva it is the tasting-power itself, distinct from the physical organ.
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 3,2.4↗explains
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)
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'The tongue is one Graha, and that is seized by taste as the Atigraha, for with the tongue one perceives tastes.'
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