Quotes:Rasa

H. P. Blavatsky

Râsa. The mystery‐dance performed by Krishna and his Gopis, the shepherdesses, represented in a yearly festival to this day, especially in Râjastan. Astronomically it is Krishna — the Sun — around whom circle the planets and the signs of the Zodiac symbolised by the Gopis. The same as the “circle‐dance” of the Amazons around the priapic image, and the dance of the daughters of Shiloh (Judges xxi.), and that of King David around the ark. (See Isis Unveiled, II., pp. 45, 331 and 332.)

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Rasa