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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
tion as are imagined to be associated only with sudhus, particularly when these have thcir brains Julled with the spiritualising fume of ganja. I also appcar more contented, more suffused with the spiritual light shining within myself, when I have had a good drink of milk, voluntarily given or cleverly stolen; a juicy niorsel of raw meat. A mouse or a squirrel, for example, does the trick even better.
Indeed, we cats are naturally given to philosophising, because we can observe huinan lifc from very close quarters. We become more meditative, the less we have to bother about procuring food. Leisure is a condition for greater spiritual activity. This socio-biological law is equally applicable to us. Hindus particularly should concede our spiritual superiority. They practise occasional mann to recuperate spiritual energy exhausted in daily talks. Our whole life is engaged in that tapasya. It is a blessing in disguise that we are physiologically (not providentially) debarred from giving our mental activity articulated forms. This physiological deficiency guarantees us the spiritual freedom, lost hy man. His thoughts and emotions are limited by speech, subjected to the tyranny of words. We know no such limitation. Our thoughts and emotions, having no articulated forms, cannot be recorded in the human sense. But they are preserved in a different form, and enter into the composition of the sub-conscious part of human mind
