"The story has been removed from the Bible, in some modern versions of it," I interjected. "The 'Christian' Brahmins couldn't face the challenge, so they quietly pulled the story that posed the challenge. They also removed the story of Chapter 13 of the book of Daniel, the story of Susanna and the Elders in which the elite were caught to be liars. They pulled that one too. They hid both away in the Apocrypha."

      "So you see Peter, we are loosing our bridge to the truth that defines all mankind as human beings and that defines all forms of love as a spiritual quality," said Indira.

      "Are you saying that this is an aspect that the boy-yogi has missed in his journey?" I asked Indira. "Or maybe he hasn't. Didn't he teach people to honor all woman and respect them as human beings and one-another likewise, and that we are capable of loving one-another across all diversities, and are free to do so? I suspect that he chose a restraining effect of purity to keep society from falling into the sewer of depravity as a prelude for the higher spiritual platform of freedom to be built. He probably couldn't demand more than the restraining effect of purity."

      "You may be right," said Indira. "I remember reading that while traveling across India in his capacity of Lord Swaminarayan he found many priests and heads of temples involved in the most unscrupulous acts. So he initiated a new culture of purity amongst his own saints by instructing them to follow an eight-fold celibacy. This provided a certain protection and respect for the women under their care, and of course raised society to a higher level of spiritual behavior, a small step on a long march. He didn't do this however with confining laws and with the death penalty as the Hebrew priests had done. Instead he did it with a higher sense of love built of purity and self-respect."

      "Mary raised the platform one more level," I interrupted Indira. "She closed the door on the small marriage platform and set the standard for the universal platform on which all people stand united as human beings by our universal humanity. She said in essence, 'nothing more needs to be built or be ordained by a priest than what already exists as the reality of your being. To add something artificial would only deny what already exists. It would deny the unity of all mankind bound by the Principle of Universal Love. The resulting protection and respect among people would in the universal marriage of mankind not result from a demand for passive purity, but from the active imperative of an understood an acknowledged universal principle. It would open the door to an active form of love as a spiritual quality."

      "But did this tall project work, Peter? Be honest."

      "Of course it hasn't worked, except perhaps in rare cases, such as our own case," I applied. "But Mary put the challenge on the table for all mankind to accept the truth of its spiritual humanity that is divine by its very nature. The swami was faced with a moral crisis in society. So he put purity on the table as a passive requirement to meet that crisis, just like Moses did. Nevertheless, the passive requirements cannot really guarantee corresponding actions without an active principle standing behind the actions, built a higher platform with the kind of imperatives that make it impossible for one to ever violate the standards. Mary said in essence to society, 'recognize yourself as spiritual beings clothed with the sun, and the love flowing out of that won't violate anything, but will be as rich as love can be.' Once the underlying principle is recognized, Indira, this profound sort of thing will happen. It cannot fail. We are proof of it. And it will uplift society and protect civilization, and provide total freedom. It's a big challenge of course."

      "So, what are you saying, Peter?" Indira interjected.

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