The Story of the Karma Sutra

The great god, Shiva, the terrible destroyer of the world, the ultimate teacher of all yoga, meditation and magic, was in the mood for love. Shiva and his wife, the beautiful goddess, Parvati, locked themselves away in their room in their palace on Mount Kailash.

A year passed, and another, and the divine couple did not emerge. Ten thousand years went by, and still they remained secluded. Only Nandi, the white bull, on guard outside the doors of their room, knew of the activities.

What was happening was lovemaking of a kind that most human beings will never experience. Theirs was a passion that annihilated time. Of these things, Nandi was sworn never to speak.

But he could not help himself. What he had overheard was so overwhelming that it could by no means be kept a secret. But even as Nandi broke his vow and spoke, the words turned to flowers that dropped from his mouth. These flowers were collected together and strung on threads, and wise men meditating upon them composed the first ever texts on lovemaking. This first book was such a tome that it took teams of sages, working for over a thousand years, to condense the sacred love teachings. At last, the entire Indian love tradition was distilled into a mere 4,000 stanzas by Vatsyayana, the give us the Kama Sutra that we have today.