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‘WE SHOULD SHARE OUR SEX ENERGIES’<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves also exploring <strong>the</strong> mysteries <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tamasguna, stretched<br />

out on a stained mattress, Pink Floyd at warp 10, <strong>the</strong> sole<br />

‘unavoidable or compulsory’ activity being to roll ano<strong>the</strong>r joint.<br />

Swami Hariprasad squeezed down next to me. He looked like<br />

someone who’d jumped straight out <strong>of</strong> bed and gone for a five-mile<br />

run before breakfast. Everything was crumpled, sweaty, out <strong>of</strong> place,<br />

including his meagre allotment <strong>of</strong> hair. I wondered if he might be<br />

unhappy about my drawing out his Ma Tantra’s shakti for half <strong>the</strong><br />

night. Perhaps he needed that shakti for himself.<br />

‘Have a good night?’ he asked, clearly telepathic. I nodded, hoping<br />

this nod seemed noncommittal.<br />

‘She’s a helluva lay, no?’ I agreed, hesitantly.<br />

‘The women here are unbelievable, man.’ He sighed, barely able<br />

to believe <strong>the</strong> unbelievable himself. ‘See that chick <strong>the</strong>re?’ He<br />

pointed out someone who might have been Morticia Addams’ little<br />

sister.<br />

‘Yeah?’<br />

‘Go for her, man. She does this yoga thing with her legs you<br />

won’t believe. She’s got muscles in her snatch like fuckin’ hands,<br />

too – <strong>the</strong>y virtually jerk you <strong>of</strong>f in <strong>the</strong>re.’<br />

I wasn’t sure whe<strong>the</strong>r this would be something I’d like. ‘Hands,<br />

hmmm?’<br />

‘A fuckin’ noose, man, I swear. Just tell her you feel her vibes are<br />

right to help loosen up your kundalini – she’ll go for it, I promise<br />

you, man.’<br />

‘You don’t take all this seriously, do you?’<br />

He turned and examined my eyes for – what? He decided to look<br />

puzzled. I made it simpler: Wasn’t he just here for <strong>the</strong> women, <strong>the</strong><br />

sex?<br />

‘Oh, man!’ He groaned <strong>the</strong>atrically. ‘You’re still locked in that guilt<br />

thing, aren’t you? You don’t understand who Bhagwan is, what he’s<br />

bringing to <strong>the</strong> world. Sex is pleasure is love is giving is sharing is . . .’<br />

He ran out <strong>of</strong> analogies. ‘There’s nothing wrong with joy, man. It’s<br />

our birthright, Bhagwan says. The union <strong>of</strong> man and woman is a<br />

symbol <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> joining <strong>of</strong> heaven and earth.’<br />

‘Yin and yang?’ I suggested.<br />

‘Exactly!’<br />

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