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After I said all this, Indira took her present off the table and held it to her breast and smiled. "This takes us miles away from the conventional world in which we live," she added.
"Tell me, is it really your birthday today?" I asked while she was still smiling. "Or is this something that Fred made up as a challenge for me?"
"What difference does it make if it is or isn't? Does such a small thing really matter in the dawn of the Forever Indira Day, Peter? Maybe Fred made it up as a challenge for you, just as he selected me as someone to explore that challenge with. He knows me well enough to trust that I would be able to meet you on an equal basis. But what do these trivial things matter in comparison with what lays before us?"
"The challenge is to turn the ship around that has been going in the wrong direction for 4,000 years, Indira."
"Fred trusts me with that much? Wow! What an honor, Peter! Of course I need this turnaround for myself, in my own life, I need it badly, especially now."
"I have a hunch that Fred thinks that the whole of India needs this turnaround, and the whole world as well, and that you might be able to help us with that. I don't think Fred sent me here just to test an idea. I think he sent me here to implement that idea in a profound way, in a way that has the potential to help to dramatically reshape the world in real terms, into a place filled with light, the light of our divine humanity. I think that's Fred's challenge to both of us. Of course we are also his test case. If we succeed in establishing something profound between us that radiates like the sun, the path lies open for uplifting India, and beyond that the world."
"You may be right," said Indira and offered a kiss right across the burning candles. We had to stand on our feet for the kiss and bow to each other. "Fred never dabbled in small ideas and small measures," Indira said afterwards. "He didn't just lift me out of poverty when he first met me. He gave me the chance to be the medical doctor that I had always dreamed to be, to be able to help where so much help was needed. Now he has put the next step on the table, before both of us."
I nodded. "That's big, isn't it? Mary's thing is that big, and its implementation enormous. It does indeed give us the potential to uplift the conventional sphere into the realm of the real, at least in our life, and then drag up the world behind us, including the Dalits and the Thevars, until the slightest vertical separation that divides mankind from one-another no longer exists. That's possible, because the separation has no foundation in truth. There is no one untouchable in the world of truth. And that is the real world. In that real world we are all one people. We are all human beings and can all be touched by the truth. In the real world we envelop one another with the strands of our love, with the light of our life. In the realm of truth, the concept of the untouchable becomes an utter impossibility."
"The high cast people have created the separating condition artificially, and on purpose," Indira said sadly. "This artificial separation makes the Dalits the poorest of the poor, and therefore the untouchables by their own admission, am I right?"
"I suppose the Thevars 'inspired' the Dalits' hopeless subjection to their poverty so that they would be able to use the Dalits as their slaves," I replied. "However, they can only do this if the Dalits are willing to tear down their humanity, which makes the Thevars' treachery possible. Of course no one wins in this relationship. The Thevars too, invariably destroy themselves as human beings in that relationship of vertical power with which tare down their own humanity and their life with it. A cruel and greedy person is a poor person as a human being. That's not an intelligent way of living, is it?"
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