Kama Sutra
Have you heard of Vatsyayana?
It is the earliest surviving example of a written love-manual. It was compiled by the Indian sage Vatsyayana sometime in the 1st Century BC. His work was based on earlier Kama Shastras or "Rules of Love" going back to at least the 7th Century BC and is a compendium of the social norms and love-customs of patriarchal Northern India around the time he lived.
Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is valuable today for his psychological insights into the interactions and scenarios of love and for his structured approach to the many diverse situations he describes. He defines different types of men and women, matching what he terms "equal" unions {samana maithuna} and gives detailed descriptions of many love-postures.
The Kama Sutra was originally written for the wealthy male city-dweller. It is not, and was never intended to be, a lover's guide for the masses, not is it a "Tantric love-manual". About 300 years after the Kama Sutra became popular, some of the love-making positions described in it were re-interpreted in a Tantric way. Since Tantra is an all-encompassing sensual science, love-making positions are relevant to spiritual practice.
Generally, Tantras recommend the use of only a few different love=postures during spiritual sex sessions. Five principle positions, all of which are found in the Kama Sutra, cover what is normally appropriate. These five principle Tantric love-making positions [which have many variations] are: More when you come and see me or you go to my website!
Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is divided into 7 parts: General Remarke, Amourous Advances, Acquiring a Wife, Duties and Privileges of a Wife, Relations with Other Men's Wives, and a section about Courtesans and Occult Means. The 7th and last part of the Kama Sutra is an appendix to the main work. It includes detailed formulations of substances familiar to Ayurvedic {Indian Indigenous} Medicine, with the emphasis on Virilifics and Aphrodisiacs. Some magical procedures of a type that in later times would be described as Tantric, are also found in the last chapter of the Kama Sutra.
The terminology used by Vatsyayana is context specific. For example, when he uses the word "Yoga", he is referring to sexual intercourse; the word "Tantra", means to him "method", "technique", or "mechanics"; and he uses the word "Yantra" to mean the sexual organ "utilized as an instrument" or to mean "dildo" or "artificial love-device". Lingam specifically refers to the male sex organ and Yoni refers to the female sex organ.
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Added on: 10/28/07 09:59
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