"The first step of Yoga is Yama. Now Yama is basically abstinence, you know!" - I talked as we walked.
"Abstinence from?" - Eva went curious.
"From everything... bad and good! From violence, from lying, from stealing, from indulging..." - I had to leave my sentence incomplete as she interrupted in between.
"There is nothing good in them. They all are really bad things to do." - impatient she...!
"... And from sex!" - I told her the good thing now.
"Is sex a good thing?" - she murmured.
"Is sex beautiful?" - I asked.
"Of course, beautiful it sure is!" - she had a shine on her face.
"Is violence beautiful?" - I maintained the same tone of my question.
"No, it's ugly." - she went bitter on her face that expressed as much as her tongue did.
"Is lying beautiful?" - I was maintaining my tone.
"Nope!" - she nodded her head in a big NO.
"Is stealing beautiful?" - again the same tone!
"No case!" - she was very sure.
"Is indulging beautiful?" - I shot my fourth ugly arrow.
"It turns you a slave. Freedom is beautiful, not indulging!" - she knew because she never herself indulged.
"So they are bad because they are ugly." - I came up with generalizing the relationship between beauty and virtue.
"And by that token sex is good... do you mean to say?" - her Christian soul challenged me.
"I'll take my stand when we come to describe Tantra. But right now my question is why after all we tend to do all those bad things that these 5 Yama instruct us to abstain from. Abstinence simply means suppression - another form of indulgence! All morals on earth are suppressive in their spirit and hence a kind of indulgence. I hate the very concept of morality for that matter. By suppressing through abstinence we still keep all those immoral things alive and they tend to re-enter our psyche with a renewed vigor every now and then. Why don't we go to their root cause and uproot them for once and for all? My contention is that the ways of Yoga are not naturally simple, they are artificially complicated." - I was sounding opinionated against the very spirit of Yoga, which I really was. My conscience wasn't ready to play the game of life ignorant.
"How would they do so?" - Eva had gone introspective by now.
"And they wouldn't let those who could!" - I came up with another allegation on the unethical behavior of Yoga done in the past.
"You mean to say Tantra people..." - said Eva.
"Whom they killed en mass 2000 years back in the name of saving the religion." - I completed her sentence.
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