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such as Rati and Utsaha, which affect it. The æsthetic experience of Santa, consists in the experience of the Self as free from the entire set of painful experiences, which are due to the external expectations, and, therefore, is blissful state of identity with the Universal. It is the experience of Self in one of the stages on the way to perfect Self-realisation. Such a state of Self when presented either on the stage or in poetry, and therefore universalised, is responsible for the arousal of a mental condition which brings the transc- endental bliss.