"Vakil Saheb, what is sex?" asked my friend, 75-year-old Harish, taking a little rest after our usual morning walk in the park.
Harish was quite an evolved person; his question took me by surprise. What does he expect me to say? The age gap and social fibre were impediments that held back any discussion on the taboo subject. In the meantime, another morning walker, commander Om Prakash, smiled mischievously at us. He was asking me to speak. Being a lawyer, did they expect me to discuss how the judicial system interpreted sex? Or sex in social life, in crime, or as a method of abuse? Maybe what they had in mind was sex in spirituality or spirituality in sex?
The question put me in a meditative mood and triggered visions of another universe where i found everything in love - not just life in the form of human beings, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians and others, but even inanimate objects - everything seemed so much unified; there was togetherness palpable everywhere. There was nothing that was separate. Everything seemed to belong... The entire universe was busy in procreation, in cosmic expansion of itself.
There was the constant formation of universes and galaxies out of galaxies, spaces out of spaces, and all chemical reactions were actually cosmic powers that changed and turned, but there was also unanimity. Why are we so reticent to talk about something that's so natural and universal? And why such a profound phenomenon is seen with such low eyes?
What made this pious and holy word so demeaning when everything was being created out of everything? The vision reappeared: princi-ples of mathematics, physics and chemistry meeting and cohabiting. One body formed, another disintegrated, turning into a different cosmic energy, expanding, changing, evolving in a birth-death cycle, ad infinitum. Finally, everything turned into gases and those gases formed other bodies. Was this not sex? Everything wanted to extend into the other. Everything wanted to be a part of every other thing.
Behind this transformation and the theories and practicals of changing shapes and orders was that One Superpower that kept the universe going.
The formation of its principles again depended on the changing orders of cosmic energies. Everything was so deeply related and dependent on each other that if you took out one thing it caused a big fuse, an explosion, whose possibilities were most destructive, but that so-caused destruction became the spark for formation of a new world.
The end of something marks the beginning of something new. Nothing died and nothing could die, and nothing could recreate without contact and nothing could live alone and separate.
As I came back again, we talked about it in another way. The story of creation or procreation starts from the beginning, where, in the zero state of the universe, there was self-loving cosmic energy. Some call it the Big Bang theory of creation of the universe. Not a very nice name for something beautiful, when creative energies meet, evolve and multiply.
Did the creative spark get released from the holy orgasm of a supernatural power that met itself to evolve? The universe is the subsequent evolution and multiplication of that desire for evolution. It goes on. Everything is love; the entire universe is manifestation of that love. So let's not live in denial. By Bhim Singh Indora