Madras, 7 January 1979

IF WE HAVE no relationship with one another, there is fear. One dominates the other, and either they separate or only come together in bed. So we live a brutal life with one another. Don’t you have all this? And in what way shall we bring order that is enduring—not order one day and disorder the next day? What brings about this contradiction in relationship? What brings this division between you, your wife or your husband, and your children? Division is disorder. Muslim and Hindu, Jew and Arab, Communism, totalitarianism, and freedom. These opposites are the essence of disorder. So what brings about disorder in our relationships, with the most intimate and the not so intimate? Have you ever thought about it?