]> 2026-04-24T15:11:12+00:00 Kamadeva 0 en Kamadeva In the popular notions the god of love, a Visva‐deva, in the Hindu Pantheon. As the ''Eros ''of Hesiod, degraded into Cupid by exoteric law, and still more degraded by a later popular sense attributed to the term, so is Kama a most mysterious and metaphysical subject. The earlier Vedic description of Kama alone gives the key‐note to what he emblematizes. Kama is the first conscious, ''all embracing desire ''for universal good, love, and for all that lives and feels, needs help and kindness, the first feeling of infinite tender compassion and mercy that arose in the consciousness of the creative ONE Force, as soon as it came into life and being as a ray from the ABSOLUTE. Says the ''Rig Veda'', “Desire first arose in IT, which was the primal germ of mind, and which Sages, searching with their intellect, have discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects Entity with non‐ Entity”, or ''Manas ''with pur''e Atma‐Buddhi''. There is no idea of sexual love in the conception. Kama is pre‐eminently the divine desire of creating happiness and love; and it is only ages later, as mankind began to materialize by anthropomorphization its grandest ideals into cut and dried dogmas, that Kama became the power that gratifies desire on the animal plane. This is shown by what every ''Veda ''and some ''Brahmanas ''say. In the ''Atharva Veda, ''Kama is represented as the Supreme Deity and Creator. In the Taitarîya Brahmana, he is the child of Dharma, the god of Law and Justice, of Sraddha and faith. In another account he springs from the heart of Brahmâ. Others show him born from water, i.e., from primordial chaos, or the “Deep”. Hence one of his many names, ''Irâ‐ja, ''“the water‐ born”; and ''Aja, ''“unborn” ; and ''Atmabhu ''or “Self‐ existent”. Because of the sign of ''Makara ''(Capricornus) on his banner, he is also called “ Makara Ketu”. The allegory about Siva, the “Great Yogin ”, reducing Kama to ashes by the fire from his ''central ''(or third) ''Eye'', for inspiring the Mahadeva with thoughts of his wife, while he was at his devotions—is very suggestive, as it is said that he thereby reduced Kama to his primeval spiritual form [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]] (TG). Sk. In the popular notions the god of love, a Visva‐deva, in the Hindu Pantheon. As the ''Eros ''of Hesi... Kamadeva Kamadeva Kamadeva 2023-01-29T11:19:35Z

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