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Kashmir Shaivism / Indian AestheticsAbhinavagupta

The Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta, writing in 10th-century Kashmir, argued that aesthetic experience — particularly music — offers the closest thing to moksha available in...

When music has genuinely moved you, what exactly dissolved — and why don't you seek that state more deliberately?

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