Sowbagyavathy VR, Greetings.
I refer to your message in post #1875. Your observation about that lady archer picture was very nice. So, why this picture was found in a soft porn site? Yes, there is much more to that picture. Her leggings stop at mid thigh level; her tops stop just below her navel. Also, she would not have drawn that bow on her own. Thanks for your appreciation!
I noticed, you side stepped my note about the sculptures in the temples. Not only yourself, but I noticed, none of the audience mentioned about that either. I am sure, every one of us have noticed those real life like, elegant, beautiful scuptures. But we seldom acknowledge the glamour side of it.
When I was 16 years old, I was searching a gift shop for greeting cards. I wanted to choose a nice greeting card for a young lady. I came across this card with a sculpture and bought that ( fortunately, bought few more nice cards with flowers back ground, temples background too). Came back to my room, when I was about to write the young lady's name & address on the card, I had a close look at that card.... A part of my anatomy sprang to attention! That sculpture was an erotic sculpture from Khajuraho! That was the first time I heard of that place. ( I didn't send that card. In fact, I saved that card for about 8 years and gave it to my wife to be!). I noticed in most of the ancient and old temples, very attractive statues are placed on the way to the sanctum sanctorum. Most of those statues, if ladies, are sculptured with very nicely and full rounded breasts, almost realistic hips and backside and most of them with as little dress as possible and the male statues are real handsome and with various scenes of display of valor. Te lady statues are so smooth, it almost invites you to touch it; from the discolorations, we can see, those statues are touched on the breast and on the inside of the thighs.
Our ancestors were brilliant. They knew, it would be near impossible to control moha just be pouring cold water on the head and involving in Rama or Krishna Japam. Those attractive staues are the invitations placed by our ancestors to bring out the animals from the depth of our minds. They placed such statues every where in a temple, but very particularly, on the way to sanctum sanctorum to indicate one can not attain the God or self realisation without overcoming such senses. All the persons who touched and caressed such statues physically and mentally lost their battle on that day. But our ancestors message was simple - it was like, 'never mind! She is not going anywhere! Comeback tomorrow and look at her until you loose interest in her!' One day we do realise that statue is nothing but a piece of rock, fashioned that way, it has no mind. it poses for everyone...blah, blah..... then we like to get a girl/man just for us who would talk, resppond, love, fight..... until we realise moha is a desire for just a piece of flesh. How we overcome moha is not important; there are many methods for that. Which ever suits us, we just take that.
But overcoming moha at the ripe old age is just lame! One does not have to give up moha altogether. We should control moha; we should not be controlled by moha.
Our mind is a jungle. We have animals of various sizes and shapes. We have to overcome all of them, every one of them to attain self realisation. To identify the existence of each animal is one realisation. We can find any one animal only by self examining. Unless we know who we are, we can not become the one 'who we want to be'. We have to have the baseline observations about ourselves so that we will know our own progress.
In one of my earlier messages, I mention about tantric method and gave an example about my food choices. That food choice comes under 'mada'. I am arrogant to reject other food unless it is cooked the way I like it; served in a way I like it! That is one more animal in my jungle! Did I overcome that? No sir! My DIL frantically writes down my receipes and cooking procedure with intermittent notes is petrified to cook anything! She is very afraid, I may make a negative comment about her cooking! My animal is winning the battle and laughing at me!
I am adding a vedio of sclptures of Belur to show what I mean about life like statues of beautiful girls. This addition is an after thought.
Dancers of Belur - YouTube
Cheers!
