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Kāma (devanāgarī: काम) is a Sanskrit term meaning "desire," "wish," "passion," or "pleasure of the senses."
In Theosophy the terms refers to the fourth principle of human beings is "the seat of animal desires and passions. This is the centre of the animal man, where lies the line of demarcation which separates the mortal man from the immortal entity."[1]
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy, (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 91.
Further reading
- Kāma at Theosopedia