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FRAGMENTS OF A PRISONER'S DIARY
Universe. It actually exists only on an infinitesimal fraction of the possible portion.
The superstitious nature of the belief in astro logy is cxposed in the light of these obscrvod facts and experimentally veriñcd theories of modern astronomy arid astral-physics. Gods in heaven do not watch over the fate of man. Man is not a marionette dancing on strings pulled by the gods in heaven or planets in their course. No cf-respecting human being should picture liims:!or herself in such a predicament. If you believe in gods in heaven, you must also know that they are 100 egoistic to bother about the fate of man. They are too busy with their drinking bouts and
Apsarus. In betwecn, they have their cxtra-legal crotic adventures even with the guru's wives. They have their petty intrigues, jcalousies and quarrels. Then, they are always being licked by the demons, and chased out of the paradise. Obviously, such a tribe of hcavenly beings, if it really existed, would be too preoccupied with their own affairs to bother about others. Besides, man would simply debase himself by entrusting his fate to the care of such a gang of drunkards, profligates, idlers, imbeciles and cowards, as are supposed to populate the den of inequity called the paradise.
If you hitch astrology to the movement of the planets, you must be disappointed to know that most of them that enter your calculation do not really exist, and that the planets existing outside 98
