Posted by Vijay Yargal on Thursday, September 24, 2009
, Mysore-Melbourne
Although we now see the tendency of suppression, India did rate its sexual life very highly in the past. The erotic literature of India was neither an open secret or material which was passed furtively from hand to hand. The remarkable feature of tonight's aspect is where sex was not singled out or regarded as a special separate subject, but rather as a normal part of normal life. Thus modern India is something of an enigma today when we see that the element of dirty-mindedness was so completely unknown to the Indian people in the past. We must recall that for thousands of years India has not one single law against drinking intoxicating liquors, using drugs and others and not even a tiny injunction against nudity or sex. There were never any laws which imposed censorship on plays performed in public, on any poetry, literature, art or temple sculpture. Laws were lacking and the heavy hand of our government was unknown. In spite of this, Indians are moral and noble people. We have not better testimony of this than the words of praise of Queen Victoria, regarded by some as a very narrow-minded Christian, but broad enough to see that the Hindu religion was, in her perception, "A good religion and the Hindus are moral people." Think on these things!
Grateful & regards,
Vijay Yargal