Kama doesn't need to be eliminated completely. It needs to be controlled, as per the Dharma, to be followed by a householder is a must for societal order, and slowly, and slowly through penance (tapas) in the form of vows, sacrifices, charity, fasts, etc. it need to be overcome. Even, so then Kama is difficult to vanquish or eliminate completely, for an average person, for kama (desires) is ...
Adultery The Kamasutra, states the Indologist and Sanskrit literature scholar Ludo Rocher, discourages adultery but then devotes "not less than fifteen sutras (1.5.6–20) to enumerating the rea...
0 No, Artha and Kama are not equally important as Dharma. Dharma as one of the Purusharthas (Dharma, Kama, Artha and Moksha) means righteousness and not rituals. Dharma is needed even in Samsara to keep the competitive instincts of men for kama and artha under control.
Obviously the Kama Sutras (at least 5,000 ago) and the Khajuharo temples illustrates gay roles, but it should also be noted that there are examples throughout the Itihas, Puran (Mahabharat, Srimat Bhagavatam, etc.) and countless examples of God's, Gandharvins, and enlightened heroes who exhibit dual genders and gay/lesbian activities.
Dharma, artha, kama and moksa are the four purusarthas, the four aims of life. The first of them, dharma, is a lifelong objective. The pursuit of artha (material welfare) and kama (desire, love) must be given up at a certain stage in a man's life. But so long as such a pursuit lasts, it must be based on dharma. When a man renounces the world and becomes an ascetic, he transcends dharma, but he ...