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"Our civilization is dying all around the world, like from a disease, a chronic diseases that we haven't been able to cure for 4,000 years," said Indira. We've become a failed society."
"No we haven't," I countered her. "A failing society, yes. But we haven't failed yet. We are not in the clutches of a chronic disease. We are in a mess all over the world because we create this mess anew each single day. We make the sane blunders every day. But this doesn't mean that we can't stand up today and say to ourselves, we won't make those blunders anymore. Once we do this, the blunders end and the consequences diminish. We can step away from our folly."
"You mean we break away from it today as we did in India from colonialism?" said Indira with a smile. "We certainly have broken away from that. I have too, personally, and from Islam, and from Brahmanism. I see myself as a human being now. And so I see you and everyone else. But as I said from the beginning, the West is far away from even being on the playing field of recognizing reality. The West is asleep. The Middle East is a mess. I see little hope of them ever breaking out of their entrapment."
"Maybe that is why Fred send you to India so that I can learn from you how to rescue the world," I said.
She began to laugh. "Unfortunately I have nothing to offer you than the little that I have achieved for myself, like regarding myself as a human being, and even with that, I really don't know yet what this means."
"I think it means that you are a Hindu," I said to her. "They say that a Hindu is a Hindu for life. I belief this to be true. If a spiritual force creates a great freedom, one won't step away from it and seek out a trap. One moves with that force. If Hinduism is a similar force to Mary's scientifically spiritual force, you'd never go back to anything less. That might be the reason why Mary made no provisions for her society to revert back to the small marriage bond. Why would she? Why would anyone want to go back? You certainly wouldn't. But there are a lot of other pioneering steps that have been taken in the past, out of small-minded perceptions, that society should never has stepped back into."
"This means that society merely has to get back to its pioneering days and its earlier freedoms, and move with the best it ever had and not make the subsequent failures anymore," said Indira.
"That shouldn't be so hard," I said. "You are already doing it, Indira. You stepped away from Brahmanism and its marriage model, onto a wider and more secure platform. You also stepped away from Islam and its smothering of women beneath the burka. Hinduism gave you that freedom. But you don't really know what Hinduism is which has been overlaid with so much perversion. Mary offers you a platform for scientific self-development. So you are moving with that, and in the process you might rediscover the heart of Hinduism."
Indira laughed. "You certainly are right on this one, Peter. Hinduism is hard to figure out, especially in respect to sex and marriage Hinduism is a mess. When the Gods themselves cannot escape the web of erotic love, what chances do we mortals have to emulate the God? We have saints in Hinduism and mystic figures that have sinned according to general perception. We have sages who have abandoned their years of renouncement of worldly pleasure for a beautiful woman. We have deities in our myths that have slept with others' wives. Some have fathered deer. We have saints in our myths that have made love to the Sun God and deceived the Sun God in due course. We have also gods who have conceived before marriage. If one were to make a list of these perversions of principles that appear in Hindu scriptures, one would put modern western societies to shame. So I see the whole mess as a divine parody that tells us in essence that sex is an important and integral part of life that one must experience for what it is. And marriage? I think that not even the gods knew about the Principle of the Universal Marriage of Mankind. How could they known, not being human, having set themselves apart into a mythical sphere of their own? Mary's science is like a fresh breath of freedom indeed."
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