"The ancient Hindus appear to have understood this process," said Indira, addressing herself to me. "The Hindus have developed a number of concepts that together define our humanity. The religions of India, especially in Hinduism and Buddhism, recognize four paths to Moksha, to or 'salvation,' in which we find transcendence to the conscious sense of our spiritual being. The four paths are the Dharma, the Artha, the discipline of Yoga, and the fourth is our Kama. Dharma is what you might call the domain of inspiration and revelation. The path of Dharma might be considered 'the Way of the Higher Truths.' The second path is Artha. It has to do with physical living.  Here the question is considered as to what are the earthly rights of a spiritual being in the image of God. The question is, how do we relate to one another as spiritual and divine beings, and to ourselves as such a being? The third path, of course, is Yoga. Yoga is not an exercise as some see it. Instead, the term refers to ancient spiritual practices that originated in early India as a means for achieving both physical health and spiritual mastery. You might call it spiritual metaphysics. And the fourth path is Kama. Kama is the god of love in Hindu myth. It has to do with one's self-knowledge as a spiritual and divine being. The god, Shiva, represents that. Some people relate the concept of Kama to sexual love. But there is more to it than physical sensuality. As we grow in grace, our spiritual senses supercede the physical senses. The sexual dimension is important here, because the dimension of sex is more a spiritual dimension than a physical dimension. The sexual dimension really begins in the mind and the physical dimension follows behind it in which the spiritual dimension is expressed. The Kama Sutra is a book about sexual loving that is focused on giving pleasure, rather than on getting the pleasure that merely follows behind it. We have the beginning of a principle here by which love is focused on the welfare of others as the highest concept of love, or actually the only concept of love."

      "That's my point," I said to the man. "The early Hinduism and revered the Kama. Christianity did the same. Since sex is a part of our humanity, it is also a part of the divinity of our being. Islam brought out the same concept of the oneness of mankind, which includes both men and women. The God of Islam is Allah, which cannot be perceived in terms of gender. The name Allah simply means all. Allah is the All that we stand in awe before and are a part of. Mohammed is reported to have said, "I trample on everything that divides mankind from one-another. The female sexual isolation under the shroud of the Burka was added later in the course of the perversion of Islam when Islam became an empire. Hinduism was also perverted into an anti-female religion by which Hinduism became a rule of terror and genocide in may ways. But Buddhism caused a move away from that, back to the common universal life, towards a life of love in uplifting one-another. Maybe that is what Kama really means. I would even say that whenever we think of sex as something isolated in itself we cheat ourselves of 99% of what it is a part of. The principle of giving something to another that uplifts and enriches another's life must extend into all fields where we endeavor to do something profound in our life, like endeavoring to excel in physics, or music, or mathematics, or medicine, or biology, or engineering, or literature, or sports, or acting, or theatre, that enables us to help make the world a richer place. These are all aspects of life, are they not? If we limit our relationship with one-other to sex, we might miss 99% of the great thing of human existence that sex is a part of. And so we let the greater part slip away, and eventually the lesser part too. That's how we loose our civilization, and have already lost much of it. Maybe the ancients had a sense of that."

      "You give them too much credit," the man interrupted. "It's tempting to think that we lost all of that. It's more likely that we never achieved such a high attainment in the past. Look at the sewer we are living in. We couldn't have fallen that low from the high perception that you are talking about. Look at Christianity. The imperial Christianity has so deeply separated God from our humanity, that both have become irrelevant. Imperial religion has defined God as remote, harsh, arbitrary, and bent on punishment and limitations, and a rule of terror. This perverted religion got us squirming under God's thumb to the point that we come crawling as self-proclaimed sinners, begging for mercy and a few scraps of something good as handouts. What kind of God-image is this? But that's the kind of God-image the imperials themselves want to have seen. It would legitimize them as rulers of a naturally dominated people, as they want mankind to see itself towards them, a bunch of animals begging for scraps. If we ever had a real sense of God, and of our divinity as the sons of God, just as a month is a son of a year, we would have never fallen into the sewer we are in today from that high stage of understood and acknowledged truth. I think we have never attained a profound perception of our divinity throughout history, with the exception of a few pioneers. Christ Jesus might have lived on that platform. But no one else ever came close to meeting him on that platform, except one American woman in the latter part of the 19th Century. A few others have taken a few steps in that direction, but they only went a few steps. What we see represented here in the Taj Mahal is evidence that a few small steps have indeed been taken from time to time, although far too few."

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