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She began to laugh. "You fiend!" she said. "But you are right. If I had been given the challenge to design a great Hindu temple I would model it after the temples of Khajuraho, the greatest Hindu temples ever built up to that time, and I would have the Kama Sutra in mind. Shaw Jahan I might have done the same thing."
"Shaw Jahan couldn't have done this," I interrupted her. "The rule of Islam would have prevented him. I also think that the Kama Sutra was hijacked long before his time in order to prevent this very thing from happening. The Brahimns evidently knew that they had to prevent the Principle of the Advantage of the Other from unfolding as a universal principle. They knew that their power would be lost if that principle would create a new renaissance in society. I think that is why the Brahmins or some Islamic rulers had inserted a preface in the Kama Sutra that essentially disabled the very principle that the Kama Sutra was created for. That preface limits its application to such a small range of partners that the principle practically disappears into the background. And then the preface turned the whole thing upside down and said that a person can rape all the lower cast women in order to get pleasure from them. The resulting perversion literally shuts down the Principle of the Advantage of the Other in its entirety. Whoever inserted the preface had literally killed the Kama Sutra. The temples in Khajuraho might have been created to bring the principle of the Kama Sutra back. The temples might have actually done that. How else can any society get into a renaissance environment that can create such a beautiful world as the temples of Khajuraho represent, and can create so many of these temples?"
We stayed for three days in Khajuraho and took the evening plane back. "What did you like most about seeing the temples?" Indira asked on the plane.
"What I like most is what we didn't see," I replied. "You spoke of the dance festival of Khajuraho as we came down. We didn't see the dance, but I could imagine it. I loved the correlation between dancing and eroticism. There is too much of that missing today. Life is spiritual, and spiritual being is a dance, so that dance should be reflected in sexual expressions. Helen's concept of the universal kiss should be seen as a form of 'dance.' How else would it reflect the spiritual dimension that makes a kiss is a sexual expression. Our own private festival of cunninglus too, should be like a great dance, at least mentally, in order to reflect the truth that spiritual being is a dance. It mustn't be anything less. If living isn't a dance, which spiritual being is, our living becomes a drag and life falls into dust. Everything should be like a dance. I think, that is what I have seen in the temples. To answer your question, that is what I liked most about being there. I saw the temples as temples of spiritual dancing."
"But our private festival is already quite a bit like dancing," Indira interjected. "I also believe that the most intimate human culture reflects a desire for this kind of dancing. Isn't that what cunninglus is? For what other reasons would women traditionally wear skirts, and widely tailored skirts in many cases? The traditions enables a festival of dancing throughout the whole day at the spontaneity of the moment."
Indira began to grin when she said this. "We should really go to the Taj Mahal next," she added moments later. "The Taj is called the greatest temple to love ever built. It should be called the Taj Mavulva. You'll be surprised by the kind of dancing you'll find there."
"You mean, I'd be more surprised?" I counter her.
"Oh we have made a good start here," she said and grinned again. "And we have made a good start in our own dance, but are there any limits to the dance?"
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