Shamans, Mystics and Doctors (A Mandala book)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sudhir, Kakar

Alternative Medicine

Mandala

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Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1990] Kakar, S.

Penguin/Random House India

The Kama Sutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, though the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains, for the most part, a mystery. In The Ascetic of Desire, called "a literary achievement of the highest order," by The Times (India), acclaimed author Sudhir Kakar tells the story of the man who is believed to be the author of the Kama Sutra, Vatsyayana, and the time in which he lived-the fourth century A.D., considered the golden age of Indian history.  In The Ascetic of Desire, the elusive sage Vatsyayana recounts his youth to a young pupil. The young man, planning to write Vatsyayana's biography, listens dutifully as Vatsyayana shares stories of a childhood spent largely in the brothel where his favorite aunt worked. As Vatsyayana's story unfolds, the pupil finds, to his consternation, that his own life has begun to reflect and parallel the ascetic's narrative. At the point where their stories intersect, the unexpected happens.  Like Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha, Sudhir Kakar's novel is a startling combination of psychological insight and historical detail. With rights sold in eleven countries, this is a story of universal appeal imbued with a distant world's charm and exotic allure.  "The best novel on sex and sensuality I have ever read." (Khushwant Singh, author of Train to Pakistan)

Ascetic of Desire:  A Novel (Based on the Life of Vatsyayana and His Kamasutra)

Penguin

The body will go...but remember, the soul will eternally cry delight.' Dying, Gopal, or Ram Das Baba to his devotees, leaves his disciple and closest companion with the essence of his spiritual knowledge. It is the ultimate truth that a lifetime of seeking has revealed to him, made him a Paramahamsa, the most highly evolved of all sadhus. Ecstasy is a story about the making of a mystic and his astonishing experiences on the spiritual path in an age that dismisses divine visions as hallucinations, and the desire for a union with God as a symptom of mental illness. It is also the story of the rare relationship between two very different men brought together by a fateful meeting. The older man, steeped in the mystical mood of complete surrender and devotion, becomes the unlikely guru of the younger, who has grown up on a diet of Western rationalism and the belief that man is the master of his own fate. The guru opens for his disciple a window to the soul, and in the process triggers a difficult private battle between reason and emotion, faith and logic; the spirit of submission that is the hallmark of bhakti and the militancy of religious pride. Sudhir Kakar, the best-selling author of The Ascetic of Desire, a novel about sex and sexuality, has written a richly layered and revelatory book about the other great theme of humankind: religion.

Ecstasy: A Novel

On Gandhi and Madeline Slade, renamed Mira. on their relationshi, events surrounding them. a bold, fictionalized exploration of a complex and tumultuous relationship. Based on history and documents, but Kakar also bridges gaps in the story with the emotions and interactions that he feels were occurring.

Mira and the Mahatma

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

reprint of a classic on Indian religion, Hinduism, key Indian leaders.

The Analyst and the Mystic: Psychoaonalyitc Reflections on Religion and Mysticism

History

Penguin books.India

As A Commentator On The Worlds Of Love And Hate , India S Foremost Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar Has Isolated The Ambivalence, Peculiarly Indian, To Matters As Various And Connected As Sex, Spirituality And Communal Passions. In Intimate Relations, The First Of The Well-Known Books In This Edition, He Explores The Nature Of Sexuality In India, Its Politics And Its Language Of Emotions. The Analyst And The Mystic Points Out The Similarities Between Psychoanalysis And Religious Healing, And The Colours Of Violence Is His Erudite Enquiry Into The Mixed Emotions Of Rage And Desire That Inflame Communalism.

Indian Identity

Psychology & Counseling

India Penguin

An inspired observer of the Indian psyche, Sudhir Kakar trained as a psychoanalyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt. He set up a clinic in Delhi in 1975, thus embarking on a lifelong search for the wellsprings of Indian identity. He went on to establish the new discipline of cultural psychology. A Book of Memory records not only the crises of identity and intellect, but also the highs and lows of love and pleasure. It is fearless and revelatory with regard to the self and its motivations, a rare candour illuminating the urbane prose.

A Book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Nature of erotic love in literature; a study of some famous love stories.

Tales of love, sex, and danger

Oxford University Press

Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and its Healing Traditions

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