Hinduism includes many currents of thought, six major philosophical systems - so there are diverse attitudes towards sexuality and eroticism.
In Hindu mythology there are numerous connections with sexuality and sex, eg one of the mythology about creation speaks of the birth of the world from the feminine (Soma - mother water) and masculine (Agni - a man personifies fiery energy); the germ of life arose from the water and from it a cosmic tree grows.
In another version, two trees are mentioned: male and female
The gods are branches like in genesis mythology. Djaus, i.e. Heaven is the personification of fatherhood, it appears in the form of a red bull filled with the seed; Varuna is a male deity of austerity and fatherhood; Ratri (Night) is a female dean protecting, a source of security; Vishnu (Penetrating) appears in the form of a young man and provides fertility; Indra, the most powerful of the gods, is a man with great strength and plays the role of a father; Kali - sister of Vishnu is a cosmic mother, the personification of dangerous femininity (blood, three eyes, a necklace of beheaded heads, ornaments from snakes); Siwa is one of the most important deities of India, whose symbol of creation energy is the phallic column (linga); from one side of her, she emerges Brahma, and from the other Vishnu she combines the features of both sexes; the god of love is Kama (otherwise known as Manmatha), known as the epitome of a love art, depicted with a cane of sugarcane and flower shots. Other sources of knowledge about love are the history of K ziemsznya's earthly life and the beautiful "Ramayana" epic poem.
In Hinduism, there are many models of love and models to follow.
Love, however, is not an end in itself, it can not be a basic life orientation - it has to influence and return to the love of God. Love closes primarily in the context of marriage and has a broad relationship with kamma - sexual pleasure. Couples in love with each other have many opportunities to expand love art. The purpose of sex life is parenting, but the accomplishment of this goal is accompanied by pleasure, which is good, because it comes from God, but is materially contaminated and therefore can be a source of suffering. The use of contraceptives is a disgraceful method of restricting the family. Another purpose of sexual life for a man is to calm his desire, "when the body attacks the senses, the wife protects them from shattering". Sexual intercourse is compared to a subtle fight in which the man is active and the woman resists. Ars amandi was treated as an expression of the demonstration of male strength and female resistance and the form of finding sexual pleasure. Therefore, detailed descriptions of exponentiation were extended; over 90 items of sexual intercourse (items often bear the names of animals, eg cat, dog, donkey, cow, frog, tiger).
In Hinduism, women are rated as more sexual and capable of a richer range of sexual experiences. It was valued to bring a woman to orgasm, because a successful sexual bond and love make a woman not only happy and happy, but also faithful, strong and altruistic.
Sex also has a mystical meaning - it shows man the truth of the universe, his sensuality is connected with the energy and forces of the cosmos. "Bhagavadgita" warns, however, that sex life can be a source of happiness, but it is happiness that is the greatest enemy of man. It should be subjected to self-control because it is easy to forget about the passage of time and to sink into the dimension of the present. Hinduism values sexual asceticism and celibacy as the path to liberation from material conditions and devotion to spiritual development.This path requires learning, distance and spiritual guidance.
Incest, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution, rape and zoophilia are condemned (in the next life, the animal is in danger of becoming an animal).
The traditional Indian family was based on the patriarchy, it had 40-50 people.Twice a day, all her members gathered in front of the house altar, offering sacrifices. All social strata highly valued children who were loved. The period of pregnancy was associated with numerous rituals and treatments aimed at protecting both women and children. After giving birth, my father would say verses from wed to the child, he fed them with honey, wishing all his virtues and whispering his name. For the first years of life, mother took care of offspring.
Marriage was treated as permanent. They were taken at an early age, followed by proper preparation, including sexual preparation. The woman was brought up in great respect for motherhood. The marriage was associated by parents, and the astrologers agreed on the date of the ceremony. In traditional India the wedding ceremonies were very rich: the body was rubbed with ointments and sandal oil, poured with perfumed water, dried with incense smoke, painted, decorated, and on the woman's forehead a golden wedding sign was made. The culmination of this ceremony was a joint prayer before the altar and a rich retinue. The husband vowed to his wife to provide three things: dharma (piety), artha (wealth), kama (pleasure). After the ceremony, the young did not get intercourse for the next three nights. On the fourth day, the wife undid the yellow tape fastened by her mother on her wrist, which symbolically expressed the breaking of the bond with the parent's home. Later, the spouses submitted the prescribed custom. In the following days and nights, the couple graduated in a range of intimate caresses and went to full intercourse.
The sacred and moral regulation concerned all the everyday life of the family.In the holy book of Bhagavadgita, we find attitudes towards family life: humility, freedom from pride, gentleness, tolerance, simplicity, purity, perseverance and self-control, renunciation of objects of sense gratification, freedom from false ego, consciousness of evil flowing from birth and death, old age and illness, lack of attachment to children, wife, home, recognition of the importance of self-realization and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth. Family life is treated as a transitional stage (the first quarter of life is devoted to science and abstinence, the second family and professional life, the third after the first grandson, previously neglected occupations, the fourth is the interruption of family and caste ties), the place to earn merit and fulfill religious duty, and social. After raising children, a man should turn to religion and contemplation. It is postulated to abandon family life in the event that it is an obstacle to spiritual development. In Hinduism, sex life, marriage, family are treated as a lower form of being, liberation is freedom from a deceptive attachment to their body and everything associated with it - wife, children, home, because devotion for Krishna is the abandonment of all attachments. Attachment to the material world is the path of darkness and to Krsna the path of light.
The slogans were prepared on the basis of: Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz: Love and Sex. Encyclopedic dictionary. Wroclaw 1999
