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"But isn't it more honorable to break with the popular lies, than it is to bow to them?" said Indira. "I am inviting you to share my life, that's honorable and truthful. No one could be closer than we are on the basis of what we both acknowledge. Shouldn't we be truthful with ourselves about that?"
She followed this up with a kiss on the lips.
"Ultimately, we can't be untruthful about that," I replied. "If we want to acknowledge the divinity of the human being that the Christ has brought to the forefront throughout history, we have to acknowledge our completeness as human beings, even our sexual completeness, representing both the male and female embraced as one. What sets us apart in the sexual arena is so minute actually, that it's not worth the mention."
"There certainly isn't a foundation there for isolating us from one another or divide us though we were a separate species like for instance a bird and fish," said Indira. "The evidence of our unity is strong, that we are all children of a single humanity."
"This evidence is all around us." I said to her with a grim. "I am looking at the evidence right now. From the moment that I saw you, I fell in love with you as beautiful woman. This love came from the heart, and it came as easily as the rain, because my embrace of you in love had already existed deep in the heart. I didn't have to create it or build it up artificially. I embraced you as a beautiful female human being, because I treasured the female element in my heart. That light was already shining brightly within me, and behold, with a great joy, I saw it reflected in you. Isn't that also how a gardener loves a rose, because its beauty really rests in his Soul? A rose means nothing to a cat. If the female nature of our humanity weren't a deeply cherished reality in my Soul, you wouldn't have meant anything to me. Instead you come to light in my sight as a great and beautiful star. On this rests our unity. We don't really have to reach across the gender gap, because there exists no such gap. All that we have to do, is to open my eyes to what is already true about ourselves and accept our built-in unity as human beings, instead of denying it. Isn't that what love is? We tend to deny the love we have when we struggle to create it, because then we deny to ourselves that it already exists."
Indira shrieked for joy, interrupting me, and returned my kiss. "This means that no special arrangements need to be made to consummate the marriage unity that already exists between the two of us, that exists as naturally as the rain, as you say, as the rain on a summers day," said Indira and embraced me again.
"It's really quite simple, isn't it," I replied during our hugging one another.
"That's what I love about what you are saying," said Indira as we started to walk again. "It is simple. The universal principles that you have discovered make everything so natural, so unmistakable. It takes away the demarcation lines and replaces them with universal sovereignty. Universal love, universal marriage, and universal sovereignty have got to be the most beautiful principles that have ever come to light in the entire history of humanity. But can they really be made to work universally?"
She stopped walking as she said this. She turned and looked me into the eye. "Answer me truthfully, can this really be made to work at all? Am I the fool of fools by inviting you to come into my home on the strength of a commitment to a principle that has never been proven before to work in an actual real life situation? My home is modest. I am not prepared for this challenge. I have only one bed, which I will gladly share with you, but will I be safe? My greatest fear has always been that when I get together with men, I might expose myself to being hurt again. Too many people all over India, and not just here, but all over the world, are being hurt by this kind of exposure inspired by some form of trust. Will you respect me as a sovereign human..."
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