Whenever the times are bad, whenever people start losing faith in God, saints and gurus appear, to protect goodness and to help people understand that the darkness of evil is removed only by the lamp of faith in God. India is a land which is fortunate to have seen many great saints. This book is a collection of the best-known amongst all of them. They hail from the South, North, East and West of the country and have left behind their words, their sacred teachings and millions of followers all over the world who love them and rever them.

This book is a look at the magical charms, spells and incantations used in ancient India specifically for the sake of love and seduction. The love magic, rituals and the spells have been extracted from innumerable texts on Mantra and Tantra Shastra, most of which are not easily available to lay readers today. This work considers only what was easily possible for lay people within the realm of their ordinary, day-to-day lives. There is no human or animal sacrifice, no skull-handling, no ashes from the crematorium, nothing that would violate aesthetic sensibilities and reduce the bright hues of love and sexuality to a deep black....