The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t1.35

c16.s1.t1.35

The natural tendency of human relations,³ again, according to the *Mahâbhârata*, is toward sexual promiscuity (*yonidoṣa*). The formation of marriage alliances or of stable societies is not instinctively prompted to man as he is. And if possible, he would shirk even agriculture, commerce, and other means of livelihood, preferring a state of slothful ease and "primrose path of dalliance".