A practical and theoretical aspect of Kaaama is presented here. Word Kaama of Hindu mythology is translated as sex in English language. Kaama is an integral part of everybody’s life. This is the highest grade of bliss provided by God to every creature. But old as well as modern thinkers say that this is not the highest bliss. One can go even higher. Take for example Rajneesha who professed going towards trance starting from sex. Every ancient society found ways and means to circumvent kaama to go to a higher stage. Let us see what is the basis of all these concepts about kaama.

          One can guess that every cell of the body is like a small magnet which has got power to attract. In ordinary iron,  atoms are arranged in a haphazard way so that the axial direction of the magnet becomes disordered. In disordered state, cells of different parts of the body respond to different types of stimulations which is called sex. Some cell respond to touch, some to pressure etc. When these atoms are made to order by some means, it becomes a powerful magnet. There is a possibility that our body cells also can be axially oriented like a powerful magnet or a powerful ferroelectric material. It is supposed that naturally, they are already aligned. The only requirement is that these should not get disturbed by the intake of external material or food. This aim has been accomplished by several means. There are reports about people who have controlled sex. They are supposed to take their intake of food in a dry form as far as possible. This is one way to disturb our own cells to a minimum extent. The second point is that our breath should be able to touch the whole body, at least the sacrum part. As soon as the intake of food becomes in excess, this connection is lost. To regain this connection, yogis have prescribed postures upside down and trying to drink air like water, to fill the stomach with air. If anyhow kaama is controlled, then it is said that the consciousness develops to higher stages.

          Has the concept of magnet behind Kaama got some support from sacred texts? Puraanic texts term Rati as the wife of Kaama. Rati in Sanskrit is nothing but attraction.

          As Dr. Fatah Singh has pointed out, the origin of vedic view of Kaama lies in the hymn which says that eye should become the weight and Kaama should become the vessel in which rice has to be de-husked or pounded. The word for vessel is Uluukhalam. Normally, Uluukhalam is a wooden ware with it’s mouth engraved to make it empty to fill un - husked rice in it. The rice pounded in it is later used for sacrificial rituals. The word Uluukhalam is important. This can be taken as Uruukaram, which means making wider, broader. As has been pointed out above, Kaama has got this property of becoming broad like a magnet. The pound has been called the eye. In the absence of practical experience, only puraanic stories of Lord Shiva annihilating Kaama with his third eye can be taken to it’s face value.

          In Rigveda, Indra has been quoted as broadening Kaama with so many types of wealth/vasu. The most important aspect of Kaama seems to have appeared in a mantra which is generally recited at the time of receiving gift or dakshina by priests. It says that who is giver, who is receiver. Neither I am giving nor receiving. It is only Kaama who is giving and receiving. This sort of affection is required while giving or receiving. This takes us towards latest developments in information technology where this concept of giving and receiving has been assimilated.