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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
as I have mentioned already, I represent the accumulated wisdom of my race.
Besides, just as a Brahmin is a Brahmin, just so is an aunt an aunt ; age does not matter. Social privileges are due to the Brahmin traditionally. You must bow before the Brahmin even if he is illiterate or a scoundrel. He is a Brahmin nonetheless, and as such deserves the respect of all others placed lower to him in the social scale by Providential Ordinance, as the Gita teaches. Domestic relations are no less providentially arranged than social stratifications. Both are cqually immutable. Just think of the Indians not implicitly following the path travelled by their forefathers in the light of revealed wisdom! What would happen as a result of such disregard for venerable traditions ? The noble heritage of ignorance, prejudice, superstition would all go by the board. India would be denationalised.
If established rules were not implicitly obeyed, the venerable social structure of India would break down; and there would be no ideal for the divincly ordained reconstruction of the world. The spiritual culture of India places abstract concepts which, if I may have the impertinence to point out, have become sanctified superstitions ; it has no respect for the concrete. These are illusions, irrelevant at any rate. Therefore, it is frivo lous, or imitating the materialistic West, to test the wisdom of our elders by any concrete standard.
