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| Ancient Indian attitude to sex was shaped by their higher consciousness - Sadguru on Kamastutra video below |
January 5, 2016, NewsCrunch
Kamasutra is one of the most famous exports of India. Log in to Amazon and search for the ancient Indian sex treatise.
There is an entire industry out there peddling from umpteen translations to bizarre memorabilia, all promising sexual nirvana.
In an interesting but somewhat naive lecture, that has gone viral, Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev offers his perspective on Kamasutra.
Ancient Indians did not see it as pornography. They saw sex as one of the bodily functions and were not obsessed with it.
The key to grasp the ancient Indian attitude to sex is to understand the higher consciousness they had achieved as a culture. They could look at everything the way it was, accepting it and with out judging it.
But this changed when the Western sense of morality creeped in. Morality differentiates between good and bad and prescribes that people stay away from bad.
It is the nature of people to do and think about what they are prohibited from doing. That is why, we spend most of our life thinking about sex and money, instead of just assigning them their rightful but limited place in life.
In this context, Kamasutra may appear as porn, says Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev.
Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev is an Indian yogi, mystic, philanthropist and author. He is the founder of Isha Foundation, a non-profit organisation which offers yoga programs around the world, including India, United States, Great Britain, Lebanon, Singapore, Canada, Malaysia, Uganda, China, Nepal and Australia.