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Nityananda's meditation gives police hard time

2010-04-28 18:10:00
Last Updated: 2010-04-28 18:45:19

Bangalore: Self-styled godman Nityananda, arrested on various charges
including rape, has proved to be a hard nut as he slips into 'dhyana'
mode and feigns illness during interrogation, a top police official
said.

During the last six days of his police custody "nothing much could be
brought out" from Nityananda, entangled in alleged sleazy activities,
the CID wing official said.

Taking advantage of his spiritual standing, Nityananda, arrested from
Solan in Himachal Pradesh after remaining in hiding for more than a
month, goes into 'dhyana' mode when police prepares for questioning,
the official said, adding it forces them not to disturb him.

After a long wait for the completion of his "spiritual" exercise,
Nityananda ducks questioning saying he was ill, the official said.

According to the official, it has not been possible to probe various
activities of Nityananda and his ashram, headed-quartered at Bidadi
near Bangalore.

The CID said they have not charted any schedule to question the
actress with whom Nityananda was purportedly shown in a compromising
position in video footage telecast by local TV channels, which sparked
off the scandal.

"We do not know the whereabouts of the actress so far," the official
said.

The sessions court in Ramanagaram, 40 km from here, has remanded
Nityananda to police custody after he was brought from Himachal
Pradesh on April 22.

The self-styled godman was hospitalised on April 26 after he
complained of "severe chest pain" but was discharged yesterday.

After landing himself in the controversy, Nityananda has quit as the
head of the ashram and said he would lead a life of "spiritual
seclusion".

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IANS
Nityananda violated rules of tantric sex: Sri Sri

2010-04-26 21:00:00
Last Updated: 2010-04-26 21:45:00

New York: Disgraced self-styled godman Swami Nityananda violated the
rules of tantra by "using so many people for one's pleasure", Art of
Living Foundation head Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said Monday.

A Foundation statement quoted him as saying in Cincinnati in the US
that Swami Nityananda, now in custody, "has violated UNAIDS guidelines
as well as the rules of tantra.”

"Only a house holder is entitled for tantric sex. Claiming to be a
monk and using so many people for one's pleasure is unpardonable,"
Ravi Shankar said.

"He should have had one partner and announced himself as a tantric
guru. It has caused damage to the faith of people in the institution
and traumatised many."

Several criminal cases relating to obscenity, criminal intimidation,
rape and hurting religious sentiments have been slapped against the 32-
year-old Swami Nityananda.

Now in police custody in Karnataka, he was on the run since March 3
after television channels showed footage of him in bed with two
women.

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IANS
How Nityananda had kept sexual activities secret

2010-04-23 17:01:16
Last Updated: 2010-04-23 18:21:08

Bangalore: Sex-scam tainted Swami Nityananda was interrogated by
police on Friday as new evidence surfaced that the self-styled godman
had made his disciples to sign non-disclosure agreement about sexual
acts.

The 32-year-old Nityananda was on the run since March 3 after a video
showing him in bed with two women was telecast and was arrested in
Himachal Pradesh Wednesday. He was sent to police custody for four
days late Thursday by a judicial magistrate in Ramanagara, about 40 km
from here.

He was brought before the court in Ramanagara as he has an ashram in
Bidadi, about 30 km from here, in Ramanagara district.

A youth hurled a footwear at Nityananda as he was coming out of the
residence of the magistrate. It hit Nityananda on his legs, and the
attacker was arrested.

Reports soon after the telecast of the video of Nityananda's sex romp
said he had tried to secure himself from any legal action by making
his devotees sign papers agreeing to sexual acts as part of rituals to
attain enlightenment.

The state police now say they have found from Nityananda's
'ashram' (complex) in Bidadi copies of non-disclosure agreement that
stated devotees had volunteered for such acts.

The agreement, copies of which have been accessed by media, states
among other things that a volunteer understands that the programme
"may involve the learning and practice of ancient tantric secrets
associated with male and female ecstasy, including the use of sexual
energy for increased intimacy/spiritual connection, pleasure, harmony
and freedom".

It further states that the volunteer understands that activities "may
involve nudity, access to visual images, graphic visual depictions,
and descriptions of nudity and sexual activity, close physical
proximity and intimacy, verbal and written descriptions and audio
sounds of a sexually oriented, and erotic nature, etc".

In an obvious attempt to protect Nityananada, the agreement adds that
"by reading and signing this addendum, volunteer irrevocably
acknowledges that he/she is voluntarily giving his unconditional
acceptance of such activities and discharges the leader and the
foundation, and anyone else not specifically mentioned here but
directly or indirectly involved in the organisation, management or
conduct of any such programs from any liability, direct or indirect,
arising from such activities".

Police are now seeking information from Nityananda on how many of his
thousands of devotees, a sizable number of whom are women, had been
made to sign this agreement.

Nityananda alias Rajashekaran hailing from Tamil Nadu faces several
criminal cases relating to obscenity, criminal intimidation, rape and
hurting religious sentiments.

He also has devotees abroad. One devotee in the US has also filed a
case against him in his country.

Bangalore police said they have been receiving several complaints of
sexual exploitation and cheating after the scandal broke out and
police appealed to people to come forward with information.

"It will be a long legal battle. We are verifying the information
reaching us from several places and confronting Nityananda with it to
know the scale of his illegal and immoral activities," a police
spokesperson said.

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PTI
Man throws slipper at Nityananda

2010-04-23 12:43:56
Last Updated: 2010-04-23 14:27:14

Bangalore: A man hurled a slipper on Friday at controversial self-
styled godman Nityananda Swami, who was arrested for his alleged
involvement in a sex scandal, as he was being taken in a police van
after being produced before a court in Ramanagara, 40 kms from here.

The incident took place as 32-year-old Nityananda was about to sit
inside a police vehicle after being produced before a judicial
magistrate, who remanded him in police custody for four days on
Thursday night, police said.

About 50 to 60 onlookers had gathered outside Judicial Magistrate
Puspavathi's home and as soon as Nityananda came out and was about to
sit in the vehicle, an onlooker flung a slipper and yelled at him, a
police official said.

Nityananda, along with his close aide Nitya Bhaktananda, who was also
arrested and brought from Solan in Himachal Pradesh, was taken away by
police, he said.

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PTI
'Godman' remanded to four-day police custody

2010-04-23 11:00:50
Last Updated: 2010-04-23 14:26:35

Bangalore: Self-styled godman Nityananda Swami was remanded in four-
day police custody by a court on Friday, a day after he was arrested
in Himachal Pradesh in connection with several criminal cases,
including rape.

Shortly after Nityananda, embroiled in a sex scandal with a Tamil
actress, was produced before Judicial Magistrate Pushpavati at a
special sitting at her residence at Ramanagara, near here.

Nityananda was brought here along with close aide Nitya Bhaktananda,
alias Seelam Reddy late in the evening and taken to Ramanagaram
Government Hospital for check-up before being produced before the
court, police told PTI.

Reddy was also remanded in four-day police custody.

After remaining elusive for more than a month, the controversial
'godman' was arrested along with four associates in a joint operation
by Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh police in Solan district on
Thursday.

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The charges against Swami Nityananda

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Godman Swami Nityananda was arrested on Wednesday in Himachal Pradesh
on charges including obscenity and hurting religious sentiments,
police said.

Nityananda has been charged with "molestation, indulging in acts that
are not in conformity with what they profess to be in religious and
spiritual order, obscenity, criminal intimidation and hurting
religious sentiments," senior police official D V Guruprasad said.

The 32-year-old has been in the eye of a storm since the footage
showing him getting intimate with two women devotees became public.

Nityananda, who went missing afterwards, has maintained the pictures
were doctored.

The video clip triggered public anger that led to irate followers
ransacking his ashram, 30 kilometres from Bangalore.

A bail plea filed in anticipation by lawyers on his behalf was
rejected by a court in Karnataka.

India has been rocked by a series of scandals involving self-styled
"godmen" who have been allegedly running vice rings and cheating
people under the guise of legitimate religious practices.

Another "guru" was arrested in New Delhi in March on charges of
running a prostitution racket involving airline cabin crew and college
girls in northern India.

Text: AFP

Image: PTI. Any unauthorised reproduction is prohibited

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Sex & the Swamis: When godmen turn unholy

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They may blame it on a state of samadhi or trance. And they may even
use high-sounding words like 'morphing' and 'doctoring' to prove their
innocence. But these godmen have never failed to bless the world with
hot controversies.

Two sex scandals involving spiritual gurus hit the news in the recent
weeks - one from the north and the other from the south.

Many of his followers felt cheated after Swami Nityananda's intimate
moments with a south Indian actress were telecast by a Tamil TV
channel.

Subsequently, Nityananda's ashrams in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka were
set on fire.

Both the swami and the actress went missing after the footage was
telecast.

The ashram claimed that the spiritual guru was in Haridwar attending
the Kumba Mela.

Later, in an interview to a TV channel, the swami said that the
actress had been his devotee for a very long time.

He said his personal life was misinterpreted. He claimed that a part
of the video has his presence but later on it is morphed.

Text: Sify News Desk

Image: Swami Nityananda

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SIFY
Godman's 'intimate moments' with Tamil actress telecast

2010-03-03 15:36:31
Last Updated: 2010-03-03 16:00:22

Chennai: A sting operation by a TV channel and a Tamil magazine
revealed the spiritual leader and leader of the Nithyananda Mission,
Swami Paramahamsa Nithyananda, in an alleged sex scandal with a Tamil
actress.

Minor incidents of protests from various parts of Tamil Nadu and
Karnataka have been reported after the channel telecast the video on
Tuesday.

Police gave protection to the ashram maintained by the Swami near
Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu.

Police said the situation was calm, barring an incident of protest by
a handful of locals who raised slogans against the Swami.

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Top 10 Most Trusted people in India

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Former president APJ Abdul Kalam has been voted the Most Trusted in a
list of 100 public figures from across the country.
The Trust Survey was conducted by Reader's Digest magazine. A cross
section of 750 people were surveyed online and asked to rank the
shortlisted individuals and professions they have the most faith in.

Text: Sify New Desk

Image: APJ Abdul Kalam (Photograph copyright AFP)

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BMJ 2001;322:575 ( 10 March )

News roundup

More than a quarter of India’s youngsters have premarital sex
Rohit Sharma Mumbai

A quarter to a third of India’s young people indulge in premarital
sex, a new study conducted by the National Institute of Health and
Family Welfare and suppressed by India’s health ministry, has said.

The study, coordinated by V K Tewari, surveyed premarital sexuality
and unmet contraceptive needs among school and college students, young
working men and women, and young people aged 15-24 years living in
slums in Delhi and Lucknow. It concludes that premarital sex varies
from 17% among schoolchildren to 33% among young workers in the
typical north Indian population. Premarital sex was more common in
Lucknow than in Delhi.

A majority of the 3300 respondents who had had premarital sex reported
first having sex at age 16-18 years. The average age for first sex
estimated by the researchers was 17.4 years for boys and 18.2 for
girls. Sixty per cent of respondents said that they had sex rarely or
sometimes; 14% had sex frequently.

About a third of the respondents were found lacking in awareness of
unsafe sexual encounters. Three to four per cent had sex with multiple
partners.

Interestingly, 30% of respondents (54% men and 20% women) stated that,
although they did not have premarital sex, their friends did. Eighteen
per cent of male respondents had sex with strangers or commercial sex
workers. Only a fifth of the respondents experienced guilt after sex.
Homosexuality was declared by 5% of respondents.

A vast majority (79%) of the respondents agreed that liberal mixing of
boys and girls in the traditionally segregated society promoted better
understanding between the sexes. A greater percentage of males (59%)
than females (35%) in Delhi stated that kissing, caressing, and dating
had become common among young people.

Unsafe sex was more common among less educated young people and
unskilled workers. The use of contraceptives ranged from 55% among
young workers to 75% among university students.

The percentage of respondents who never used a condom was quite high—
50% of females and 45% males. The use of a condom "always" was higher
among males (19%) than females (9%). Overall, 46% never used condoms,
22% sometimes, and 17% always.

Although the researchers emphasised the unmet contraceptive need of
the youngsters, the study highlighted the need for sex education felt
by 70% of the respondents. The study recommended that the reproductive
health needs of young people should be given more priority by opening
clinics for adolescents and counselling centres in schools, colleges,
professional institutions, and working places.

Rapid Responses to:

NEWS ROUNDUP:

Rohit Sharma http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22author%3AR.+author%3ASharma%22
More than a quarter of India’s youngsters have premarital sex

BMJ 2001; 322: 575

Rapid Responses published:

How valid is this study? 10 March 2001

S P Prabhu,
Specialist Registrar, Radiology
Southmead Hospital, Bristol

Re: How valid is this study?

This news item serves to highlight the poor quality of studies that
are quoted in western literature pertaining to developing countries
like India. I think that it is a gross error to suggest that a sample
population from large cities in Northern India is representative of
the whole Indian population.There is no way that I can accept that
these figures quoted for premarital sex are applicable for the average
Indian youth. I have worked in India and travelled the length and
breadth of the country. I can safely say that the situation is very
different in the South and Western India compared to the highly
populated and socially less developed North,where this study was done.
A proper study should have a much larger multi center approach to
generalise the results for a lrge country like India.

Internationally renowned journals like the BMJ should resist from
publishing snippets like this just for their sensationalistic value.

Baseless survey. 11 March 2001

Thomas M Walter,
Asst. Lecturer, Dept. of Medicine, Govt. Siddha Medical College,
Palayamkottai, Tamilnadu, India.

Re: Baseless survey.

The survey result as found in the article, "More than quarter of
India's youngsters have premarital sex" seems to be baseless. India
still lives in villages. Survey results found in Delhi and Lucknow
does not represent the Whole Indian Youngsters.

I am working in Government Medical College Hospital where we come
across youngsters with their problems. I am also having a Clinic in a
Rural area. According to my Clinical experience, the major problem of
an average Indian male youngster in his premarital age is his queries
about masturbation and the physical and mental symptoms wrongly
attributed to it. They repeatedly ask questions regarding the practice
of masturbation to local health magazines and Doctors.

Life to an average Indian youngster girl in her premarital age does
not allow her to have dating, kissing and caressing before marriage.
Marriages are still arranged by their parents taking the Caste, Creed
and every possible traditional criteria into consideration.

Awareness about the possible risk of getting STD, AIDS are also
available to the community, thanks to the efforts taken by the State
and the Central Governments. Anyway, one segment of youngsters such as
Lorry drivers and adolescent criminals etc are more vulnerable victims
of premarital, unsafe sex. The fact is that these people neither use
condoms nor seek medical intervention in the early stages.

So, it is concluded that the quarter of India's youngsters don't have
the Social setup to have premarital sex. It is also essential on part
of the Government to introduce sex education to youngsters.

Thanks, Walter.

Grossly Misrepresented Data about India 12 March 2001

Gopal K Sachdev,
Professor Medicine & Gastroenterologist
Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

Re: Grossly Misrepresented Data about India

The study suffers from the following drawbacks:

1.The sample size is too small to represent 1 billion people in India

2.The selection is 'too biased':

India is a vast country with 70-80% of its population living in rural
areas where there is a great influence of 'traditional social &
cultural values'. The study has not included people representing this
major section of the population. On the other hand the 'selected
sample' is a biased sample. It is well accepted fact that the sexual
practices in people living in slums and industrial areas are very
different from the 'traditional rural areas' in any country. Besides
including individuals from slums, the study has included sample from
the metropol cities which is definitely more exposed to the 'Western
Influence' as a result of the 'media revolution' in India going on
during the last decade. Also the group included has more chances of
two sexes close interaction and thus increasing the chances of having
sexual relations. I do not deny that pre-marital sexual reations do
occur in any county including India but the figures quoted certainly
can not be applied the whole India. At least the 'Title' of the study
could have been more appropriate to the sample selected. I wish that
editorial committee should have gone into these details before
publishing this study

Re: How valid is this study? 12 March 2001

Sunita Abraham,
Post Grad Student-Community Medicine
Madras, India

Re: Re: How valid is this study?

I have worked in the Dept of Sexually Transmitted Diseases at the
Institute of STDs at the Madras Medical College.I was amazed to find
that many of the young patients were student not yet our of high
school. Amazed because having worked in a rural area - a village-
earlier,this kind of phenomenon is not seen. Again I had the
opportunity to work in a clinic which deals with providing information
and education to people with HIV/AIDS. A high proportion of Commercial
sex workers are very young girls. So though this article may not apply
to the country at large- I am sure that it can be a stepping stone to
the formation of a protocol for a proper multi-centric study.

worrying number 12 March 2001

A De Silva,
Student

Re: worrying number

It is irrelevant that the study is not representative of majority of
India. What is a greater concern is that amoung the youth that do
engage in premarital sex, the majority do do not use condoms. What
this survey shows is that in this segment of the population there
exist "unmet contraceptive need of the youngsters."

And more worrying, the article points out that the the National
Institute of Health and Family Welfare suppressed this report. It
makes one wonder, how for reasons of propriety or policy, have these
institutes attempted to distort the perception of sexual climate in
urban India, especially in light of AIDS concern and the prostitution
industry.

Credible evidence lacking! 12 March 2001

Sudhir Charles,
Registrar, Public health
CBN India, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.

Re: Credible evidence lacking!

My first response on reading the article was-"Wow, this is what the
BMJ says-?!"

Needless to say, I was looking for credible evidence in the article,
which, I regret the article lacks.

I have been in India all my life and have been practising medicine in
rural and and as well as urban areas for the last 11 years and my
personal experience is quite to the contrary. While the over all age
of first exposure has definetely gone down in urban areas(thanks to
the media and the health education on HIV and easy accesibility to
condoms), that is not the case in rural areas(where almost 80% of
India exists) and most newly married couples ask doubts that should
ideally have been handled at the secondary school level itself. Some
are unaware even how to consummate their marriage! There was one
couple that came to one of our Infertility clinics 1 year into
marriage and thier marriage had not consummated!! This is just but one
example of the ignorance and highly structured rural social systems
that rein in the adolescent gush to experiment.

The same rigid reins unfortunately, also hold the future of India's
AIDS programmes, a fact that most of the Governmental policies somehow
choose to ignore.

While Mr.Sharma might have been wanting to jolt people into thinking
about their responsibilities towards the younger generation and their
sexual attitudes(and thereby towards HIV and AIDS), it should have
been done in a more credible way and with a more multi-centric
approach, specially involving the rural areas. Differences between the
cultures in various parts of India also should have been thought of,
the Northern parts being more conservative, not to mention differences
that tend to creep in secondary to education and socio-economic
levels.

Indian youth are much more composite and much more complex than youth
from, just the two cities, mentioned in the article and the evidence
if submitted should have been relegated to just "Northern Indian
cities" rather than the whole of India.

Who is irresponsible 16 March 2001

Heema Shukla,
Research Fellow
Univeristy of Westminster

Re: Who is irresponsible

A study on sexual behaviour of young people in any community in India
is welcome. However, the way the results of the study have been
reported is unscientific. It is important that BMJ clarifies who has
been irresponsible- the author of the study or the reporter Rohit
Sharma. If Rohit Sharma misrepresnted the conclusions than a very good
study within a defined population may unnecessarily be judged
unscientific. On the other hand, if the author of the study is
claiming that his study represents nationally reprentative sample than
the study is unscientific and BMJ should have been cautious in its
reporting.

Good example of sampling bias! 20 March 2001

A Shetty,
Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Hartlepool General Hospital,

Re: Good example of sampling bias!

Editor-The new's article made interesting reading but the caption
appears inappropriate.

The sample size of the study population was very small (3000)
considering the population of India which is one billion.Moreover the
study was performed only in Delhi and Lucknow and the conclusion was
generalised to a wider population. The diversity in population
demographics,cultural,social,religious and many other factors have not
been appreciated.To the reader's this is a clear example of sampling
bias.

Mr.A.Shetty
Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Hartlepool General Hospital, Holdforth Road, Hartlepool TS24 9AH
e-mail ajits...@aol.com

Reference

1. Rohit Sharma. More than a quarter of India's youngsters have
premarital sex. BMJ 2001; 322: 575. (10 March)

increasing premarital sex 26 March 2001

P V Balamurugan,
medical officer
govt. primary health centre pudukkottai dist

Re: increasing premarital sex

this survey though conducted in cities to an extent tells ab out
increasing in pre marital sex in INDIA.

WORKING IN A RURAL AREA I CAN WITH OUT DOUBT TELLTHAT PREMARITAL SEX
IS INCREASINGINGLY MORE COMMON IN RURAL AREAS TOO.THE MAIN PROBLEM IS
THAT WOMEN HERE ARE EVEN MORE IGNORANT ANDSUFFER WHILE MEN HAVE NO
PROBLEM.

IT IS HIGH TIME TO TO EDUCATE WOMEN ESPECIALY ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH AT AN APPROPRIATE AGE BY APPROPRIATE PERSONS.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/322/7286/575#13461

I stand by my comments on pre-marital sex: Khushboo

2010-04-28 15:10:00
Last Updated: 2010-04-28 17:31:05

New Delhi: With the apex court giving her a clean chit on Wednesday,
actress Khushboo said she stood by her comments on pre-marital sex and
live-in relationships and that celebrities were pinned down for no
rhyme or reason.

'When you look around, every celebrity is pinned down for no rhyme or
reason and that is quite a harassment,' Khushboo told NDTV in an
interview.

'I knew what I had spoken...it's not an easy task for a woman to stand
alone and say 'I believe in what I have spoken',' she added.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed criminal cases against Tamil
actress Khushboo for making a controversial statement endorsing pre-
marital sex and live-in relationships.

A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice B S
Chauhan quashed 22 criminal cases against her saying Khushboo's
statement on the issue of pre-marital sex and live-in relationships
was her personal view and the Indian Constitution entitles her to
express it.

Khushboo claims she was misquoted in a Tamil newspaper and that her
remarks about pre-marital sex and living together were made as part of
a discussion on AIDS and HIV.

'A woman and actor combined together made a statement that made
sense...and that was the problem, I think,' she said.

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Pre-marital sex: SC quashes 22 cases against Khushboo

2010-04-28 11:20:00
Last Updated: 2010-04-28 13:17:32

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed nearly two dozen
criminal cases against Tamil actress Khushboo for making a
controversial statement endorsing pre-marital sex and live-in
relationships.

A bench comprising Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.S.
Chauhan quashed 22 criminal cases against her saying that her
statement on the issue of pre-marital sex and live-in relationships
was her personal view and the Indian constitution entitles her to
express it.

Khushboo had challenged the 2008 ruling of the Madras High Court,
which had dismissed her plea to scrap various criminal cases against
her for the controversial remark.

In a speech earlier, Khushboo had said there was nothing wrong with
pre-marital sex and live-in relationships. In its ruling the bench
asked: "When two adults want to live together, what is the offence?
Does it amount to an offence? Living together is not an offence. It
cannot be an offence."

The court had said the views expressed by her were personal. And no
one had the right to question the personal thinking of a person, the
court said.

The bench had also asked the complainants to produce evidence of any
girls eloping after the statement.

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Kama Sutra
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Kama Sutra (disambiguation).
The Kama Sutra (Sanskrit: कामसूत्र), (alternative spellings:
Kamasutraṃ or simply Kamasutra), is an ancient Indian Hindu text
widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in
Sanskrit literature written by Mallanāga Vātsyāyana. A portion of the
work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse.[1] It is
largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kāma"
means sensual or sexual pleasure, and "sūtra" literally means a thread
or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to
an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such
aphorisms in the form of a manual. The modern English word "suture" is
derived from the same root.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatsyayana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse

The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts
known generically as Kama Shastra (Sanskrit: Kāma Śāstra).[2]
Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or "Discipline
of Kama" is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper,
who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the
god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the
benefit of mankind.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Shastra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandi_(bull)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati

Historian John Keay says that the Kama Sutra is a compendium that was
collected into its present form in the second century CE.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keay

Content

The Mallanaga Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra has 1250 verses, distributed in
36 chapters, which are further organized into 7 parts.[5] According to
both the Burton and Doniger[6] translations, the contents of the book
are structured into 7 parts like the following:

1. Introductory
Chapters on contents of the book, three aims and priorities of life,
the acquisition of knowledge, conduct of the well-bred townsman,
reflections on intermediaries who assist the lover in his enterprises
(5 chapters).
2. On sexual union
Chapters on stimulation of desire, types of embraces, caressing and
kisses, marking with nails, biting and marking with teeth, on
copulation (positions), slapping by hand and corresponding moaning,
virile behavior in women, superior coition and oral sex, preludes and
conclusions to the game of love. It describes 64 types of sexual acts
(10 chapters).
Artistic depiction of a sex position. Although Kama Sutra did not
originally have illustrative images, part 2 of the work describes
different sex positions.3. About the acquisition of a wife
Chapters on forms of marriage, relaxing the girl, obtaining the girl,
managing alone, union by marriage (5 chapters).
4. About a wife
Chapters on conduct of the only wife and conduct of the chief wife and
other wives (2 chapters).
5. About others' wives
Chapters on behavior of woman and man, how to get acquainted,
examination of sentiments, the task of go-between, the king's
pleasures, behavior in the women's quarters (6 chapters).
6. About courtesans
Chapters on advice of the assistants on the choice of lovers, looking
for a steady lover, ways of making money, renewing friendship with a
former lover, occasional profits, profits and losses (6 chapters).
7. On the means of attracting others to one's self
Chapters on improving physical attractions, arousing a weakened sexual
power (2 chapters)
Pleasure and spirituality

A Sexual Pose from Mukteswar Temple in Bhubaneswar, OrissaSome Indian
philosophies follow the "four main goals of life",[7][8] known as the
purusharthas:[9]

Dharma: Virtuous living.
Artha: Material prosperity.
Kama: Aesthetic and erotic pleasure.[10][11]
Moksha: Liberation.

Dharma, Artha and Kama are aims of everyday life, while Moksha is
release from the cycle of death and rebirth. The Kama Sutra (Burton
translation) says:

"Dharma is better than Artha, and Artha is better than Kama. But Artha
should always be first practised by the king for the livelihood of men
is to be obtained from it only. Again, Kama being the occupation of
public women, they should prefer it to the other two, and these are
exceptions to the general rule." (Kama Sutra 1.2.14)[12]

Of the first three, virtue is the highest goal, a secure life the
second and pleasure the least important. When motives conflict, the
higher ideal is to be followed. Thus, in making money virtue must not
be compromised, but earning a living should take precedence over
pleasure, but there are exceptions.

In childhood, Vātsyāyana says, a person should learn how to make a
living; youth is the time for pleasure, and as years pass one should
concentrate on living virtuously and hope to escape the cycle of
rebirth.[13] Also the Buddha preached a Kama Sutra, which is located
in the Atthakavagga (sutra number 1). This Kama Sutra, however, is of
a very different nature as it warns against the dangers that come with
the search for pleasures of the senses.

Many in the Western world wrongly consider the Kama Sutra to be a
manual for tantric sex. While sexual practices do exist within the
very wide tradition of Hindu Tantra, the Kama Sutra is not a Tantric
text, and does not touch upon any of the sexual rites associated with
some forms of Tantric practice.

Translations

The most widely known English translation of the Kama Sutra was
privately printed in 1883. It is usually attributed to renowned
orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work
was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagvanlal Indraji,
under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Foster
Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram
Parshuram Bhide [14]. Burton acted as publisher, while also furnishing
the edition with footnotes whose tone ranges from the jocular to the
scholarly. Burton says the following in its introduction:

It may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that
Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translated into the English
language. It happened thus. While translating with the pundits the
'Anunga Runga, or the stage of love', reference was frequently found
to be made to one Vatsya. The sage Vatsya was of this opinion, or of
that opinion. The sage Vatsya said this, and so on. Naturally
questions were asked who the sage was, and the pundits replied that
Vatsya was the author of the standard work on love in Sanskrit
literature, that no Sanscrit library was complete without his work,
and that it was most difficult now to obtain in its entire state. The
copy of the manuscript obtained in Bombay was defective, and so the
pundits wrote to Benares, Calcutta and Jaipur for copies of the
manuscript from Sanskrit libraries in those places. Copies having been
obtained, they were then compared with each other, and with the aid of
a Commentary called 'Jayamanglia' a revised copy of the entire
manuscript was prepared, and from this copy the English translation
was made. The following is the certificate of the chief pundit:

'The accompanying manuscript is corrected by me after comparing four
different copies of the work. I had the assistance of a Commentary
called "Jayamangla" for correcting the portion in the first five
parts, but found great difficulty in correcting the remaining portion,
because, with the exception of one copy thereof which was tolerably
correct, all the other copies I had were far too incorrect. However, I
took that portion as correct in which the majority of the copies
agreed with each other.'

In the introduction to her own translation, Wendy Doniger, professor
of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, writes that
Burton "managed to get a rough approximation of the text published in
English in 1883, nasty bits and all". The philologist and Sanskritist
Professor Chlodwig Werba, of the Institute of Indology at the
University of Vienna, regards the 1883 translation as being second
only in accuracy to the academic German-Latin text published by
Richard Schmidt in 1897.[15]

A noteworthy translation by Indra Sinha was published in 1980. In the
early 1990s its chapter on sexual positions began circulating on the
internet as an independent text and today is often assumed to be the
whole of the Kama Sutra.[16]

Alain Daniélou contributed a noteworthy translation called The
Complete Kama Sutra[17] in 1994. This translation, originally into
French, and thence into English, featured the original text attributed
to Vatsyayana, along with a medieval and a modern commentary. Unlike
the 1883 version, Alain Daniélou's new translation preserves the
numbered verse divisions of the original, and does not incorporate
notes in the text. He includes English translations of two important
commentaries:

The Jayamangala commentary, written in Sanskrit by Yashodhara during
the Middle Ages, as page footnotes.
A modern commentary in Hindi by Devadatta Shastri, as endnotes.
Daniélou[18] translated all Sanskrit words into English (but uses the
word "brahmin"). He leaves references to the sexual organs as in the
original: persistent usage of the words "lingam" and "yoni" to refer
to them in older translations of the Kama Sutra is not the usage in
the original Sanskrit; he argues that "to a modern Hindu "lingam" and
"yoni" mean specifically the sexual organs of the god Shiva and his
wife, and using those words to refer to humans' sexual organs would
seem irreligious." The view that lingam means only "sexual organs" is
disputed by academics like S.N.Balagangadhara.[19]

An English translation by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar, an Indian
psychoanalyst and senior fellow at Center for Study of World Religions
at Harvard University, was published by Oxford University Press in
2002. Doniger contributed the Sanskrit expertise while Kakar provided
a psychoanalytic interpretation of the text.[20]

A more recent version was published by Madelyn Carol Dervos in 1998
(ISBN 0-9668398-1-1). It is a Japanese silk bound 176-page edition
that includes 21 graphic hand-painted illustrations of the original
Kama Sutra love-making positions. The book can be previewed at
http://thekamasutrabook.com