2025, Vol. 11, Issue 2, Part B

author(s)
Dhamma Jyoti Bhante

abstract
The religious, cultural and philosophical sources bear ample testimony to the fact that the term sensuous lust (kāma) has been discussed broadly and differently among the Indian thinkers and philosopher since the pre-Vaidik and Vaidika eras. This word has been in usage in other sources of external meanings as well as in religious and cultural meanings. Sensuous lust (kāma) is an inherent and intrinsic characteristic in human mind and it is a natural element, phenomenon and mental state common to all people. It is impossible to discuss the nature of human behaviour leaving aside the concept of sensual lust (kāma) which is closely associated with psychology, ethics and epistemology in the philosophy in both the Orient an the Occident.