Vatsyayana Quotes

Love does not care for time or order

A person who does nothing will enjoy no happiness.

for it is a universal rule that however bashful or angry a woman may be she never disregards a man's kneeling at her feet.

a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking'.

This “who’s on top” banter continues until one wrestler (who has slyly gone to hide behind a chair) leaps upon his rival with an animal cry. The pair then proceeds to create a series of tableaux that appear to be from the Kama Sutra, Vatsyayana's ancient Indian textbook of carnal satisfaction. Occasionally, the tension is broken by a wrestler who picks up a large object, such as a table, to throw on the other's head, as if suddenly disgusted by his forbidden love.

IF a woman has manifested her love or desire, either by signs or by motions of the body, and is afterwards rarely or never seen anywhere, or if a woman is met for the first time, the man should get a go-between to approach her.

Vatsyayana moreover thinks that in all these things connected with love, everybody should act according to the custom of his country, and his own inclination.

Kama is the enjoyment of appropriate objects by the five senses of hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting and smelling, assisted by the mind together with the soul. The ingredient in this is a peculiar contact between the organ of sense and its object, and the consciousness of pleasure which arises from that contact is called Kama.

A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth) and his Kama (pleasure or sensual gratification), and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. In short, an intelligent and knowing person attending to Dharma and Artha and also to Kama, without becoming the slave of his passions, will obtain success in everything that he may do.

A man should therefore pay regard to the place, to the time, and to the practice which is to be carried out, as also as to whether it is agreeable to his nature and to himself, and then he may or may not practise these things according to circumstances. But after all, these things being done secretly, and the mind of the man being fickle, how can it be known what any person will do at any particular time and for any particular purpose.

L’homme doit étudier les Kama Sutra et les arts et sciences qui s’y rattachent, concurremment avec les arts et sciences relatifs à Dharma et Artha. Les jeunes filles doivent aussi étudier les Kama Sutra, ainsi que les arts et sciences accessoires, avant leur mariage, puis continuer cette étude avec le consentement de leurs maris. Ici des savants interviennent, disant que les femmes, auxquelles il est interdit d’étudier aucune science, ne doivent pas étudier les Kama Sutra.

Pleasures, being as necessary for the existence and well being of the body as food, are equally required. They are, moreover, the results of Dharma and Artha. Pleasures are, therefore, to be followed with moderation and caution. No one refrains from cooking food because there are beggars to ask for it, or from sowing seed because there are deer to destroy the corn when it is grown up.

Even by day, and in a place of public resort, when her lover shows her any mark that she may have inflicted on his body, she should smile at the sight of it, and turning her face as if she were going to chide him, she should show him with an angry look the marks on her own body that have been made by him. Thus if men and women act according to each other's liking, their love for each other will not be lessened even in one hundred years.

conversation of Brahmans. Such, then, is the Padmini or

Teksts ne tikai ieņem oficiālo vīrieša nostāju (pārstāv Vātsjājanas balsi), bet arī prezentē metodes, kas noliedz sievietes vārdu atbilstību viņas patiesajām izjūtām; kliedzieni "Izbeidz!" vai "Māt!" tiek interpretēti nevis kā norāde uz sievietes vēlēšanos izvairīties no viņai nodarītajām sāpēm, bet kā daļa no rituāla, kura mērķis ir uzbudināt partneri [2. 7. 1.-21.]. Šie fragmenti pauž to, ko mēs tagad atpazīstam kā izvarotāja mentalitāti.

Pienākums mīlēt laulāto draugu un ievērot uzticību laulībā pirmām kārtām tika prasīts no sievas, bet gandrīz nekas neierobežoja vīru, kurš dzīvoja zem un lūkojās augšup uz izvirtīgām debesīm, kurās mājoja miesaskārīgi dievi un debešķīgas palaistuves, vienlaikus pārpasaulīgas un netraucēti iekārojamas, dedzīgas sniegt baudu un pašas to gūt. Indiešu eposu panteons līdzinājās grieķu Olimpam, kurā dievi un dievietes līksmo un sacenšas, neapgrūtinot sevi ar morālām atrunām.

Vīriešu un sieviešu seksuālās fantāzijas bieži tiek saistītas ar tumšiem, destruktīvi agresīviem nolūkiem. Bez iztēlotas, kaut vai minimālas, bālas un vāji apzinātas vardarbības, daudzi vīrieši nespēj panākt spēcīgu seksuālu uzbudinājumu; agresija pret sievieti ir tikpat nozīmīgs viņu potences faktors kā mīlestības jūtas. Viena no galvenajām šādu vīriešu fantāzijām ir paņemt ar varu to, kas netiek sniegts labprātīgi; daži vīrieši iztēlojas, kā sieviete vispirms nevēlas dalīties seksuālā pārdzīvojumā, bet pēcāk viņu pret pašas gribu aizrauj vīrieša spēks. Šīs "iegūšanas fantāzijas" variāciju mēs atrodam klasiskajā sanskrita mīlas poēzijā, kas sacerēta apmēram vienā laikā ar Kāmasūtru (..) - sievietes šausmas uzbudina gan viņu pašu, gan varbūtējo uzbrucēju.

Miss Hawkes, I fear I cannot find the book I'm looking for." "What is it? Do you know the author?" "I do. His name is Vatsyayana." Oh, but he was horrible. Hateful! It was Fionna's dearest wish to slap him, but he was too far away. And if he thought to rattle her, he was sorely mistaken. "Ah, yes, I know his work." His smile widened slowly, an unmistakable gleam in his eyes. For an instant he looked almost boyish. Under other circumstances, it might have been utterly engaging. As it was, it just infuriated her more.

Fionna hauled in a stinging lungful of air, impatient with her behavior. What the devil was wrong with her? Why, she'd acted the panic-stricken schoolgirl, afraid of being ravished! Which she was not. Neither a schoolgirl, nor in danger of being ravished. Not really. Granted, her knowledge of the earthy side of passion far exceeded actual experience- any experience at all, to be sure. Except, perhaps, for her rather erotic imaginings with Raven and Rowan. And, of course, hidden deep in the very bowels of her desk... Her copy of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra.

Thus a man practising Dharma, Artha and Kama enjoys happiness both in this world and in the world to come.