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In this context, hear the rationale for erotic sculpture panels, I will explain them according to the received tradition among sculptors. Kama is the root of the world's existence. All that is born originates from Kama, it is by Kama also that primordial matter and all beings eventually dissolve away. Without [passion of] Shiva and Shakti, creation would be nothing but a figment, nothing from birth to death occurs without activation of Kama. Shiva is manifest as the great linga, Shakti essential form is the yoni, By their interaction, the entire world comes into being; this is called the activity of Kama. Canonical erotic art is an extensive subject in authoritative scriptures, as they say, a place devoid of erotic imagery is a place to be shunned. By Tantric authority, such places are considered inferior and to be avoided, as if tantamount to the lair of death, of impenetrable darkness. — Shilpa-prakasha 2.498–503, 11th-12th century, Hindu Tantra text, Translated by Michael D Rabe "Kama (Sanskrit, Pali; Devanagari: काम) means "desire, wish, longing" in Hindu and Buddhist literature. Kama often connotes sexual desire and longing in contemporary literature, but the concept more broadly refers to any desire, wish, passion, longing, pleasure of the senses, desire for, longing to and after, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, or love, enjoyment of love is particularly with or without enjoyment of sexual, sensual and erotic desire, and may be without sexual connotations. Kama is one of the four goals of human life in Hindu traditions.[1] It is considered an essential and healthy goal of human life when pursued without sacrificing the other three goals: Dharma (virtuous, proper, moral life), Artha (material prosperity, income security, means of life) and Moksha (liberation, release, self-actualization). Together, these four aims of life are called Puruṣārtha." "Kama, (Sanskrit: “Love,” “Desire,” “Pleasure”) in the mythology of India, the god of erotic love and pleasure. During the Vedic age (2nd millennium–7th century BCE), he personified cosmic desire, or the creative impulse, and was called the firstborn of the primeval Chaos that makes all creation possible. In later periods he is depicted as a handsome youth, attended by heavenly nymphs, who shoots love-producing flower-arrows. His bow is of sugarcane, his bowstring a row of bees. Once directed by the other gods to arouse Shiva’s passion for Parvati, he disturbed the great god’s meditation on a mountaintop. Enraged, Shiva burned him to ashes with the fire of his third eye. Thus, he became Ananga (Sanskrit: “the Bodiless”). Some accounts say Shiva soon relented and restored him to life after the entreaties of Kama’s wife, Rati. Others hold that Kama’s subtle bodiless form renders him even more deftly omnipresent than he would be if constrained by bodily limitation. The Sanskrit term kama also refers to one of the four proper aims of human life—pleasure and love. A classic textbook on erotic love and human pleasure, the Kama-sutra (c. 3rd century CE), is attributed to the sage Vatsyayana." HAPPILY EVER AFTERThe wedding was celebrated in great splendor, and they lived happily to the end of their days. “BRIAR ROSE,” in The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm "These days, not many of us believe in happily ever after. Statistics show that well over half the married couples in our culture divorce, and many of those who stick it out do so for reasons other than personal happiness—because it’s such a hassle dividing everything, moving, having to start over—not to mention children and the emotional and financial aspects of splitting up. In this practical twentieth- century climate, it’s hard to take happily ever after as much more than a metaphor in which “ever after” means “for a while.” Theoretically, this definition could allow a person to live happily ever after if he or she lived in consecutively happy-for-a-while relationships. These were fashionable to a degree in the sixties and seventies, but became first questionable and then dangerous in the eighties as the AIDS epidemic was recognized and understood. But it is not just fear of AIDS that is changing contemporary relationships. In our seminars we meet men and women whose desire for partnership stems from a feeling that there is something important to be gained from a significant relationship. And it seems to be more than a desire to “settle down.” Couples today are looking for a commitment from each other, but a special kind of commitment—one that contains a spiritual as well as a physical element and emotional and psychological aspects as well as material ones. This is a fairly new phenomenon, and in this regard we may indeed have entered a New Age. For one thing, the concept of “marrying for love” is relatively new, popular only in the past 150 years or so. Before that, material and political considerations took precedence over any kind of attraction, emotional, physical, or intellectual, and most matches were arranged among families. Consider also how the social-sexual aspects of relationships have evolved over the past hundred years in our western culture, beginning with a period of Victorian values and attitudes that loosened its laces at the turn of the last century but didn’t toss away its stays until the 1920s and 1930s. In the forties, war romanticized relationships at the same time that it tore them apart, and the fifties inherited the results of that war; people entered the era of the atom bomb with a determination to make the nuclear family work. Then came the sexual revolution of the sixties, which spawned the women’s movement of the seventies and its demand for social and sexual equality. And so into the eighties, the post-sexual- revolution era, a time of personal movement and personal freedom that the media dubbed the “me” generation. Now, as we approach the turning of another century, men and women seem to want to face life together. This may be the start of the “we” generation, a generation that desires an end to the battle of the sexes and the beginning of a new form of relationship in which partners work together as a team to satisfy needs, uplift one another, and journey together toward personal growth and sexual and spiritual fulfillment." THE PASSIONATE PARTNERSHIP "A passionate partnership not only needs the nourishment sexual energy provides, it also needs maintenance. Conscious maintenance. We believe that as much care, thoughtfulness, and attention should be paid to a relationship as to a career, a family, or a cause. Unfortunately, this is not a popular concept. More popular, but less realistic, is the theory that love, having visited itself upon us, is here to stay; that a relationship, once established, will operate on automatic, will be self-sustaining, and will not interfere with the partners getting on with their individual lives. Furthermore, couples expect their relationship to augment and complement them professionally, creatively, socially, and economically. That’s a lot to ask of coupledom; but in fact a loving relationship can provide nourishment in all areas of life. It can generate energy enough not only for itself but also for work, family, friends, hobbies. But this doesn’t happen by magic. A relationship is like a garden. If it’s not watered, weeded, pruned, fertilized—cared for—its yield suffers. If it’s untended it goes to seed. One of the main reasons relationships deteriorate is that the partners neglect them." TANTRIC VIEW OF REALITY "To help us understand the tantric philosophy, we need to make a distinction between a higher plane of reality, a state of cosmic consciousness, which we will refer to as Reality with a capital R, and our microcosmic or worldly reality, which we will call reality with a lowercase r. In our lowercase reality, there exists a fundamental condition of duality that expresses itself as masculine and feminine. This is not an exclusively eastern concept; many cultures demonstrate a similar perception in their languages." Each chakra corresponds to a specific area of the body, and each is believed to generate a particular form of what we call “drive.” The seven chakras align through the center of the body, with the spine as their axis. They begin at the base of the spine with the first or base chakra. According to the tantric books, the first chakra’s drive is toward the material; its desire is to acquire and possess. Ironically, its bodily function deals with elimination. The second chakra is located in the region of the genitals, out of which is generated the sex drive. The third chakra, behind the navel, relates to power issues and influences the digestive system. The fourth chakra, which governs respiration, is near the heart, and is considered the energy source for intimate connection. The fifth chakra, at the throat, influences the glandular system and contains the drive to communicate as well as the spiritual drive. The sixth chakra exists between the eyebrows, where it generates intellect, and in the back part of the brain (the reticular formation), where it affects consciousness as well as the potential for inner vision. A “thousand-petaled lotus” represents the seventh chakra, which is located at the crown of the head inside the cranium and also in the area just above the head, in that realm we seek outside of ourselves. When this exterior portion of the seventh or crown chakra is emanating energy, we refer to it as a halo. Although a westèrn skeptic might raise an eyebrow over much of the system we’ve just outlined, similar metaphorical values apply in our own perception of the human body. For example, we make an obvious association with the first chakra, located just above the anus, when we refer to “anal retentiveness,” or when we say that a person who seems extremely possessive or obsessive is “tight- assed.” And few would deny the powerful charge that occurs in the region called the second chakra when one is sexually aroused. This is the reproductive center—a generator of the most creative sort. The third chakra controls digestion and affects the drive for power. We know it as the solar plexus, and we are certainly familiar with its energetic expression on a physical level. We call someone “gutsy” who demonstrates drive and forcefulness; we know that a “gut-level” feeling about something should be respected. This area is the site of ulcers in many modern-day westerners who are simply “driving” themselves too hard. The fourth chakra, too, is easy to envision in contemporary terms. Eastern tradition ascribes to the heart rulership of compassionate instincts, of love and sympathy and intimate association; and western language echoes this ascription. We say “Have a heart!” when we ask for mercy or compassion; we talk about heartbreaks and heartthrobs and heartaches. We know what a heartwarming situation is, and that it is not measured by Fahrenheit or centigrade. We are often “led by our heart,” when we think we should be directed by our head. And although we don’t literally mean that our heart has us on a leash, we do mean that we are moved, directed, affected by some power or influence the heart has over us. It’s easy enough to accept that the fifth chakra, located in the throat, holds the equipment for communication and that the voice, a function of vibration, is an energetic expression. The fifth chakra’s symbolic relationship to spirituality may be harder to fathom, but we do know that emotion expresses itself in this region. We get a “catch in the throat” when we are moved, for example, and we feel our “heart in our throat” in extreme situations. We can appreciate the throat’s symbolic position as the connector of the body to the mind—the mind being the gateway to a spiritual union—if we remember that at the end of life, in the ultimate spiritual journey, a “death rattle” may occur in the throat. This is considered to be the sound of the soul departing the body on its way into the cosmic arena. The sixth chakra, source of intellectual energy, cognition, and concentration, can be viewed as a metaphor for the brain and the brain’s power or energy. Some people call the sixth chakra the “third eye,” and ascribe to it powers of inner vision or insight. Each chakra, then, represents a natural human desire—to possess, to copulate, to achieve, to love, to communicate, to understand, and finally to ascend, to exceed ourselves by touching God or the cosmic consciousness or a higher level of being, or whatever your words are for it. The tantric way uses these natural urges in men and women as the basis for establishing a continuously passionate loving relationship. THE SEXUAL / SPIRITUAL CONNECTION It is traditional in many cultures, even western cultures, to practice celibacy in the pursuit of spiritual life. This is true as well for the hundreds of schools of yoga that recognize sexual energy as a spiritual force, and aim to conserve that energy for the spiritual path. But celibacy as a spiritual motivator pretty much limits the quest for a raised form of consciousness to a cloistered community; and of course, if everyone followed this path, the number of people making a spiritual journey would quickly diminish and disappear. Today many of us common folk aspire to spiritual growth. But we also desire to grow with a partner. Tantric yoga was the path couples chose thousands of years ago to satisfy this dilemma, since the tantric discipline allows men and women to have a mate, to enjoy sex, and to experience spiritual fulfillment, often simultaneously. How can this be? How can sexuality coexist with spirituality—the one base, the other sublime? For an answer we look inside, to the Tantra’s subtle body, and to its ascending energy centers, beginning with the most “base” and ending in the cosmic zone." FOCUSING THE MIND "Tantric yoga is practiced in a serene, calm frame of mind, a condition that is often difficult to achieve in our high-tech, high-stake, fast-paced world. Tantra urges meditation, the conscious turning of the mind away from things of this world, in order to experience a deep inner peace. To help us get to that state, Tantra offers several techniques. Concentration is one, and while it seems simple enough, it is not easily achieved. To aid us in our efforts to concentrate, Tantra suggests a variety of meditations that directly affect the brain, quieting the intellectual, analytical left hemisphere and activating the experiential, intuitive right hemisphere. It is in the right hemisphere of the brain that “mystical” experiences transpire. (As a general rule, to the extent that a person is operating in the left side of the brain during lovemaking, he or she misses much of the ecstatic potential tantric sexual love offers.) Another method to still the mind is a breathing technique called “cosmic intercourse.” To practice this exercise, focus awareness on your spine beginning at the base chakra, and then bring that awareness up in a slow, deep-drawn inhalation, conscious of each energy center on the spinal axis, from base to crown. At the end of the inhalation, hold your breath for three to ten seconds, during which time you should try to actually feel the energetic air that fills the cranium at the crown of the head, the “Seat of Shiva.” Now begin the exhalation, also a slow, deep breath, as you accompany that rarefied air back down through your body, visiting the same energy reservoirs in the opposite direction, maintaining awareness all the while. At the base chakra, hold your breath out for several seconds, and focus your mind on this reservoir or seat of kundalini energy. Then begin again. The rhythm is one of waves washing up a sandy shore and back, up and back, smoothing the beach, like a caress. Try it now; it will refresh and relax you. As you inhale, picture the air freshening each spinning wheel of energy inside you; as you exhale let your breath carry away all the day’s exhaustion." BLOG COMMENTS RULES & GUIDELINES All comments are subject to moderation. 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