A riveting accounts of love and desireIndia may be the only civilization to raise kama-desire and pleasure-to a goal of lifestyle. Kama is normally both cosmic and human being energy, which animates life and keeps it in place. Gurcharan Das weaves a powerful narrative soaked in philosophical, historic and literary ideas in the 3rd level of his trilogy on life’s goals: India Unbound was the first, on artha, ‘materials well-being’; and The Difficulty of Being Great was the next, on dharma, ‘moral well-being’. Here, in his magnificent prose, he examines how to cherish desire to be able to live a rich, flourishing lifestyle, arguing that if dharma is usually a duty to some other, kama is certainly a responsibility to oneself. It sheds fresh light on love, marriage, family, adultery and jealousy since it wrestles with questions such as for example these: How exactly to nurture desire without harming others or oneself? Are the erotic as well as the ascetic two aspects of our same human being nature? What’s the partnership between romantic like and bhakti, the love of god?