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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
The woman, who is usually more sensible, is also corrupted by the hypocritical epithet of "Devi". Notwithstanding all the verbiage about love, women cannot have any illusion about man's real attitude towards them. Running after the illusive ideal of godness, man loses sight of the reality of his being. An illusive goal, of course, can never be reached. Man can never be God. Only trying to hide his humanness, he becomes the embodiment of hypocrisy and falsehood. Literature hitherto has been mostly devoted to the rationalisation of this degradation.
As regards intelligence, modern psychology has blown up the bubble of man's qualitative superiority to the lower animals. I employ the usual term "lower" with protest. Man is really a degraded and depraved animal. In reality, he or she is an animal. His whole being, including the much vaunted spiritual qualities, is determined by impulses which are common to all the higher forms of organisms. He is so proud of his intelligence; but he knows so mighty little of the animal instincts that dominate the thin layer of his conscious mind. We animals follow our instincts unashamed and voluntarily. Man is a slave of the animal instincts which compose his sub-conscious mind. He is like an ox, driven under the yoke. The most scientific school of modern psychologybehaviourism-deprives man of mind, and reduces him to a mere organic machine. In view of this
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