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Kama Sutra
AMOROUS MAN & SENSUOUS WOMAN
The Kama Sutra is an ancient classical work on the art of love.
Its uniqueness lies in that it discusses the theme of sexual pleasure without any feeling of shyness or shame. The author, Vatsyayana, talks about 'kama', that is, sexual pleasure, and explains the rules which should govern life according to kama. Through its discussion on, erotic love, the book manages to highlight the social customs and individual habits of ancient India. This tastefully produced and beautifully illustrated gift edition treats the subject of male and female sexuality in two separate volumes, suggestively entitled The Amorous Man and The Sensuous Woman. The male-female union is portrayed in all its splendour through the use of Indian miniatures and Khajuraho sculpture.
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The Amorous Man
Introduction
Two thousand years ago, on the misty ghats of the Ganga in Vanaras, the sage Vatsayayana composed the Kama Sutra, the science of love, as part of his
religious duties. The original, in Sanskrit, has one thousand two hundred and fifty shlokas or verses. A sutra is an aphorism, the briefest way to state a principle. In the oral tradition prevalent in the age, it provided the easiest form of retaining knowledge. Down the ages, these succinct ideas needed expansion into commentaries (as in the case of Jayanangala of the tenth century) on which subsequent writers relied in order to give shape and dimension to their studies.
To this day, the Kama Sutra remains one of the greatest books of the world - a classic love manual, a watershed in the rich tradition of Indian erotica. It says to the world: 'Happiness and sexual equality belong to every human being. 'One of the earliest attempts to define the wholesome nature of the relationship between a man and a woman, with disarming sexual frankness and candour, and without any trace of guilt, the Kama Sutra explores the way you should behave as you set out to seek a companion, the many ways you can achieve sexual fulfillment, while keeping both your wife and concubine happy.
The Kama Sutra must not be seen solely as a book about just the famous 'sixth-four', a label which has been unfairly stuck to this treatise for the number of love-positions described in it. Vatsayayana was conscious of the gravity of his task, and wrote,: 'This book is not to be used merely as an instrument for the satisfaction of our desires. A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, the preserves his virtue (dharma), his wealth (artha) and his sensual pleasures (kama), and who has regard for the customs of the people, is sure to obtain mastery over his senses.
In short, an intelligent and knowing person, attending to dharma, artha and kama, without becoming a slave of his passions, will obtain success in everything he may do.
Kama, the Hindu God of Love, does not merely represent sexual pleasure, but all pleasures emanating from the five senses of sound, sight, smell, touch and taste.
Anything which appeals to these can give a man unbounded happiness. It is for this reason, therefore, that six chapters, out of the original seven, dealt with conduct of a person in society.
The hidden arts of sexuality or the body's rapture cannot ever be divorced from the raptures of the soul. This book is meant to enhance your perception of pleasure in
the soul. This book is meant to enhance your perception of pleasure in the world around you, as you live your life on this bounteous planet.
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If in joy are sung, let them be the most excellent eternal songs.
If one dances when joy has arisen, let it be done with release as its object |
In the pleasure room, decorated with flowers and fragrant wjth perfumes, servants, the citizen should receive the woman and invite her to take refreshments and to drink freely. |
When you embrace me, my sweetheart, inflict upon me then, as a penalty, all the things that result in the bondage of that embrace. |
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In the monsoon, when swings dot every tree and birds and animals all seek their partners, it si hard not to think of love. |
To extinguish my fire of passion,
lay your breast upon my bossom, impatient for the pleasures of embracebject |
With increasing assiduity be should dispel her fears and by degree get her to go with him to some lonely place where he should embrace and kiss her |
He dwells on past events, and yearns for that nectar again, the embrace of your breasts like pitchers. |
To me, who's Narayana, be now attached O follow me my little Radha |
In the standing embraces, the woman clings to the body of the man in the same way that a creeper twines around a tree trun |
The lady tugs at the beard of lover, as well as his lingam, to rouse him |
As if it were the garment on your bosom which conceals your breasts, I shall remove
the pain of being partedha |
Ready for her lover, with shame all gone, she moans, she cries, because you delay |
When the women of the king's harem accidentally get hold of a man, they all want to enjoy him |
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