RASA is an Indian word, derived from Sanskrit, that refers to the experience of ecstasy in art--to the feeling performers seek to arouse in their audience, and the emotional intoxication they themselves attain in the process.  According to Indian aesthetic theory, there are nine rasas, or emotional states: love, courage, loathing, anger, mirth, terror, pity, surprise and compassion.  RASA, adapted from Bharati Mukherjee's 1989 novel Jasmine, chronicles the odyssey of a young Indian woman, an émigré to America (like Mukherjee herself), who discovers her capacity--the capacity in all of us for a wide variety of states of feeling, roles, identities.