Artha
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Sep 20, 2026
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Part 1.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
The Vatsyayana Sutra Introductory Preface Salutation to Dharma, Artha, and Kama In the beginning the Lord of Beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chapters laid down rules for regulating their existence with regard to Dharma, Artha, and Kama.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Footnotes Dharma is acquisition of religious merit, and is fully described in chapter 5, volume 3 of Talboy's Wheeler's History of India, and in the edicts of Asoka.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Artha is acquisition of wealth and property, etc.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Kama is love, pleasure, and sensual gratification.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
These three words are retained throughout in their original, as technical terms.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
They may also be defined as virtue, wealth, and pleasure, the three things repeatedly spoken of in the laws of Manu.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
End footnote Some of these commandments, namely those which treated of Dharma, were separately written by Swayambhu Manu.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Introductory Preface.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Salutation to Dharma, Artha, and Kama.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
In the beginning the Lord of beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chapters laid down rules for regulating their existence with regard to Dharma, Artha, and Kama.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Footnotes.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Dharma is acquisition of religious merit, and is fully described in chapter 5, volume 3 of Talboys Wheeler's History of India, and in the edicts of Asoka.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Artha is acquisition of wealth and property, etc.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Kama is love, pleasure, and sensual gratification.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
These three words are retained throughout in their original, as technical terms.
VytauteHOST
Let's talk about artha because that's also an interesting one.
Kaya MindlinGUEST
Yes.
Kaya MindlinGUEST
Artha, we can translate as security.
Kaya MindlinGUEST
And it's usually translated as wealth.
Kaya MindlinGUEST
So I often just call this, you know, food on the table and a roof over your head.
Kaya MindlinGUEST
And that can be the most basic needs.
Kaya MindlinGUEST
And it can also include, you know, letting those basic needs be fulfilled in perhaps a more luxurious way, depending on our karma, which is another word, but depending on your sort of destiny pattern, how artha or this wealth component of life is fulfilled is going to be variable, just like dharma is variable, that it essentially means feeling secure, pursuing that which will make you secure in life.
Kaya MindlinGUEST
And so under the category of Artha, we can think of everything that you do to make sure that you are fed, everything to do to make sure that you have enough money to live, everything you do to make sure that your family has security.
Satyanarayana DasaHOST
So he says he asked because the way Krishna defined what is Dharma, what is Gyan, what is Vairagya, what is Aishwarya is something different than what he has heard before.
Satyanarayana DasaHOST
But generally here Dharma means injunction of Vedas is called Dharma, Chodana, Lakshana, Artha, Dharma.
Satyanarayana DasaHOST
But here he said Dharma mad bhakti krita prokta, which is different.
Satyanarayana DasaHOST
So then he said, better I ask other things also.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Part 1.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
The Vatsyayana Sutra Introductory Preface Salutation to Dharma, Artha, and Kama In the beginning the Lord of Beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chapters laid down rules for regulating their existence with regard to Dharma, Artha, and Kama.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Footnotes Dharma is acquisition of religious merit, and is fully described in chapter 5, volume 3 of Talboy Wheeler's History of India, and in the edicts of Asoka.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Artha is acquisition of wealth and property, etc.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Kama is love, pleasure, and sensual gratification.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
These three words are retained throughout in their original, as technical terms.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
They may also be defined as virtue, wealth, and pleasure, the three things repeatedly spoken of in the laws of Manu.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
End footnote Some of these commandments, namely those which treated of Dharma, were separately written by Swayambhu Manu.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
And there they like... talk about their work and they give positions to some neighbor's child to come and intern at their company, stuff like that.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
The whole project is about Kama, Artha and Dharma.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
And this Yajnavalkya is about to walk out on all of this.
Nishanth SelvalingamHOST
And his wife is asking him, what is all of this for? Like, why are you doing this? And then he says, The wife loves the husband and the husband loves the wife.