Kama (devanāgarī: काम kāma) 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 place (LOKA) of desire (KAMA) ... locus (borrowed from Latin). The kama loka is the plane or level of reality on which emotions operate, sometimes called astral, which is coexistent with and interpenetrates the physical plane....

The kama-rupa, which becomes the vehicle for the unconscious or quasi-conscious entity in the kama-loka, is actually forming constantly during the life of the individual; in other words, it is in a continual state of modification or change, these changes beginning when the incarnated entity as a child first feels itself conscious of mental and emotional affections, attractions, etc.

A Sanskrit compound from KĀMA, meaning desire or pleasure, and manas, the thinking part of the human. MANAS is the fifth human principle in the sevenfold classification which may incline toward the higher or buddhic or the lower, the desire principle (kāma). See also MANAS; HUMAN CONSTITUTION.

Kamarupa (Sk.). Metaphysically, and in our esoteric philosophy, it is the subjective form created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with things of matter, by all sentient beings, a form which survives the death of their bodies.

Helena P. BLAVATSKY, in her The Secret Doctrine, lists kāma-rūpa fourth in the Esoteric Buddhism classification of the septenary division of the human principles (Vol. I, p. 157). Blavatsky, in her postumously published Theosophical Glossary states that “Kāma-Rūpa is the subjective form created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with things of matter.” She maintains that this “form” is created by all sentient beings and that it survives the death of their bodies.

In fragment 1 of The Voice of the ... The Sanskrit word for "desire" is kama. According to Theosophical teaching, kama is one of the seven principles or aspects of human nature....

Kama is the first conscious, all embracing desire for universal good, love, and for all that lives and feels, needs help and kindness; the first feeling of infinite tender compassion and mercy that arose in the consciousness of the creative ONE FORCE, as soon as it came into life and being ...

Kama is the Sanskrit word for desire (e.g. Kamasutra, although it can refer to desire in general).. In the Theosophy of Blavatsky, Kama is the passional nature in man, the fourth principle of the septenary, associated with emotions and desires, attachment to existence, volition, and lust (Farthing ...

When the man dies, his lower three principles leave him for ever; i. e., body, life, and the vehicle of the latter, the astral body or the double of the living man. And then, his four principles — the central or middle principle, the animal soul or Kama-rupa, with what it has assimilated from the lower Manas, and the higher triad find themselves in Kama-loka.

The author of Esoteric Buddhism -- which book ought to be consulted by all students of Theosophy, since it was made from suggestions given by some of the Adepts themselves -- gave the name Kama rupa to the fourth principle of man's constitution. The reason was that the word Kama in the Sanskrit language means "desire," and as the idea intended to be conveyed was that the fourth principle was the "body or mass of desires and passions," Mr.

Kama-loka . . . is an astral locality, the limbus of scholastic theology, the Hades of the ancients, and, strictly speaking, a locality only in a relative sense. It has neither a definite area nor boundary, but exists within subjective space; i. e., is beyond our sensuous perceptions.

It is only the rarest human beings who know much about the higher aspects of kama, such as divine desire, although there are many men and women whose compassionate humanitarian interests and activities are lifting them slowly to those highest planes of desire. Therefore the technical name in theosophy for the personality is kama-manas.

September 28, 2025 - Man consists of desire (kama), As his desire is, so is his determination, As his determination is, so is his deed, Whatever his deed is, that he attains. ... Ancient Indian literature such as the Epics, which followed the Upanishads, develop ...

Kama-Manas corresponds in Indian Theosophical terminology approximately to what we call the ego or the lower I of man as it lives in the intellectual or mind soul.

Kama is the first conscious, all embracing desire for universal good, love, and for all that lives and feels, needs help and kindness; the first feeling of infinite tender compassion and mercy that arose in the consciousness of the creative ONE FORCE, as soon as it came into life and being ...

(Sk.). A Sanskrit term derived from kāma meaning desire, and deva, god or celestial being. It is used to denote those beings or angels that exist on the astral plane or plane of desire. © Copyright by the Theosophical Publishing House, Manila

With this conviction borne in on my own mind very strongly for some little time past, I gladly embrace the present opportunity of setting forth in some detail the expanded conception which some of us have recently been enabled to form, of that state of existence described in the Esoteric doctrine as Kama-loka, which is, obviously, the state with which spiritual mediumship brings us most readily into relation. It will be remembered that the passages in the Esoteric teaching as first systematized for the service of Theosophical study, which deal with the passage from earth-life to the true spiritual condition of Devachan, are broadly to the following effect:—When a man dies the three lower principles are discarded and consigned to the graveyard.

The real entity may then be regarded as consisting of four principles, themselves divisible in imagination into two duads, the lower having to do with the earth-life just spent, the higher with the spiritual life then re-awakening. A struggle, it has been represented, takes place in the sphere or state of existence immediately adjacent to our physical state—in Kama-loka—between the affinities which these two duads are imbued with.

The author of Esoteric Buddhism ... The reason was that the word · Kama in the Sanskrit language means "desire," and as the idea intended to be conveyed was that the fourth principle was the "body or mass of desires and passions," Mr....