Tripura Rahasya on beauty and romantic love

Advaita Vedanta puts forth the simple premise that life is fundamentally suffering. This suffering shows up in our lives when we mindlessly pursue our desires. An area that ancient yogis and sages recognized held great potential for sorrow is the realm of love and sex. In this area of our lives, when we are unconscious, we allow attachment to calcify in the mind by replaying a memory of pleasure and superimposing…