Kamasutra – not the vulgar scripture
May 16, 2008
Kamasutra, alternative spelled Kamasutram or simply Kamasutra, is an ancient Indian scripture that is widely considered to be the evergreen work on love in Sanskrit literature. It is considered to be authored by Mallanaga Vatsyayana. A portion of the work addresses with human sexual behavior.
Substantive collection of contents has been done in the first part of Kamasutra. The matter includes Dharma (Religion), Arth (Wealth) and Kama (Carnal delights). First part also tells about the ways for achieving the substantive matter. Matter of Kamasutra also involves the time of studying Kamasutra, 64 postures, singing and playing instruments the agents of men and women folk experts in this art, and the partners in sexual coitus.
Many people accuse Kamasutra of rendering the whole literature as obscene or vulgar i.e. Kamasutra is not the vulgar. Refuting these charges only our things can say that there are a couple of ways of conveying anything – sober and slang. Complex and intimate relation between a man and a woman will be said as the obscene if expressed in slang terminology before the noble ladies. In sober term though, this relationship does not appear obscene at all. A sober language delivers even the most obscene subject in a well-decorated way.
Such a description does not induce shame but it certainly incites the curiosity of the reader in a salty way. Therefore, it is a common belief among the essayists that infrequent use of words that can appear obscene otherwise, for describing a romantic scene, is not be mistaken with vulgarity. Such terms are to be regard more as merit than demerit of literature. Moreover, sex is not always vulgar and when it comes to the sex description in Kamasutra, it is an art that involves the mind, body and soul reflecting that Kamasutra is not the vulgar.
While reading this holy book for love, one has to put his mind as well as eyes. There are many movies that have some portion describing sexuality in a Kamasutra manner. The makers of such movies believe that to watch a movie, you have nothing to do except seeing. More than often after watching such movies, one is being provided knowledge with visual effects so that go directly in mind. It is always that motion catches human brain more than the still objects.



























