How many of you have heard about kamasutra ?? Everyone I guess, Kamasutra the book of desires and human sexual behavior is considered as the worlds most famous book in its genre and a cultural part of Indian history and society. But do you know who wrote this amazing and ancient Hindu text ? even of those who have read it around the world only few of them have the Idea of who the writer was as he is almost never talked about.
The ancient book of Kamasutra was written by Vātsyāyana a religious student and a great philosopher, his exact years of life and his work could never had been pinpointed but it is believed that he belonged to the era of the Gupts, he used to travel the whole India to learn and preach religious knowledge. Very less is known about him but it is heard that he preached about Tara the Tantric goddess and the Yoni goddess Kamakhya to the tribals and believed human sexual behavior as a medium of attaining spirituality.
Kamasutra is the only known text written by him, and a whole lot can be known by him in this beautiful life lesson he wrote at at the end of Kamasutra which said “This work is not to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our desires. A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who saves his Dharma (the virtue), his Artha (wealth) and his Kama (the feeling of pleasure), and who has love regard and respect towards customs of his and other people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. instead of becoming the slave of his passions,he or she will obtain success in everything that they may do.”
