Erotic Temples of Khajuraho, India
Welcome to the most unique UNESCO World Heritage Site. (950 AD to 1050 AD)
Most popular destination for foreign visitors to India, is the small temple city of Khajuraho. 20 Hindu and Jain surviving temples depict very explicit erotic art, leaving nothing to imagination.
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Post a CommentThese are spectacular! I would love to see them in person.
When I visit India, I'll be sure to add this to the list of places to visit. Thank you for sharing.
Magnificent art of the best subject in the world--perhaps the main reason many of us continue to incarnate! I gave you five stars!
Very wonderful slideshow, I am impressed. Very perfect collections on Khajuraho.
From my limited knowledge I would comment on the photo in which the devotees are stepping up to reach the temple. Its no ordinary situation. The anxiety rather the perseverence with which the devotees are proceeding ahead is in itself a notable feature of the place. In the photo 'Every inch of the temple wall is sculptured' I simply remember the theory of creation in which the Prakriti borrows energy from the Purusha and when the two interact the universe is created albeit with its three properties Satoguna, Rajoguna and Tamoguna. These most precious and most natural sculptrures are also eye opener to those who raise hue and cry in a cheap manner over nude paintings and trouble artists. Prem Chand Sahajwala
Thank you for letting me know about this slideshow, and sharing experiences with Tantra Yoga and for your appreciation of mine. I agree with the other comment that it might be enlightening to people for you to explain some of the meanings of the images.
For example, the male forms represent the principle of Absolute Consciousness that is associated with our crown chakras, our universal self made of pure beingness. The female forms represent our embodied individual personalities which are more associated with the root chakras, and we can feel that urge to create this world when we do the Tantric exercises that shoot the energies up from our base to to the top of our heads, and bounce them back down again. This movement of extra powerful electromagnetic energies through the cleared conduit through the spine is the love of the parts of ourselves that exist beyond and the parts that live within the limitations of human perception. The healthy body is polarized like a magnet, and goin
Hope the author explains the significance of the sculptures including the beauty and the beast !