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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
physical being and to attain high intellectual powers ! One cannot lay claim to any spiritual attainment unless he believes in, and pretends to practise, Brahmacharya. You must believe in the word, even if you cxperience the impossibility of practicing it. The tyranny of one single word docs not permit you to be frank. Anyone with some knowledge about the construction and function of the human body, will tell you that sexintercourse within certain limits does no harm.
The Auid discharged in that act does not contribute to any extraordinary physical power through its hypothetical retention. Indeed, the retention is positively harmful for the adult. The sperm has a specific function in organic mechanism to fertilise the ovum. It serves no other purpose. Modern psychology has discovercal that active suppression or subconscious inhibition of the sex-iinpulse is the cause of grave mental derangements. Strange road to high intellectual powers !
If literature is the record of feelings and cmo tions, it must be liberated from the inonopoly of man in order to rise up to its full stature. Under man's monopoly, it presents a distorted or falsified picture of feelings and emotions. Either animals should break into the monopoly, following my example, or men and women should have the courage and honesty to own upto their natural impulses.
In the accursed West, modern literature, to
