Tulsi Badrinath
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199465187
- eISBN:
- 9780199086511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199465187.003.0022
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Badrinath says in this essay that it is in the Dharmic views of human life that one has, for the first time in human history, a profound understanding of sexual happiness which has at the very heart ...
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Badrinath says in this essay that it is in the Dharmic views of human life that one has, for the first time in human history, a profound understanding of sexual happiness which has at the very heart of it an equally profound paradox. The factors which help man and woman create sexual pleasure and happiness are all non-sexual in nature: that is the paradox of sex. The paradoxical foundations of sexual pleasure are already mentioned in the Chhandogya Upanishad and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Physical pleasure of sex is dependent upon the feeling that the human bodies of man and woman, with all its innate attributes, physical and psychological, is sacred. Badrinath states that the clearer the awareness of the sacredness of the physical, the more heightened will be the sexual pleasure.Less
Badrinath says in this essay that it is in the Dharmic views of human life that one has, for the first time in human history, a profound understanding of sexual happiness which has at the very heart of it an equally profound paradox. The factors which help man and woman create sexual pleasure and happiness are all non-sexual in nature: that is the paradox of sex. The paradoxical foundations of sexual pleasure are already mentioned in the Chhandogya Upanishad and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Physical pleasure of sex is dependent upon the feeling that the human bodies of man and woman, with all its innate attributes, physical and psychological, is sacred. Badrinath states that the clearer the awareness of the sacredness of the physical, the more heightened will be the sexual pleasure.
