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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
ing to Hindu religion and philosophy, is no more rcal than a dream. It may be a pleasant dream or a niglitmare, according to one's karma. Birth is the moment when the dream begins. Why should this particular moment be recorded and remembered? There is still less reason for doing so when life is look! Won as a bondage-a misfortune. The prisoner diucs not remember the date of his incarceration in order to celebrate it. Why bother to remember the day when misfortune Overtook you ?
This religious philosophical doctrine thrives only on the social background appropriate for it. The vast majority of the Irdian people have sufficient reason to look upon life as a misfortune. They live a life full of scrrow, suffering and misery. The joys of life are unknown to them. To toil and keep dire starvation away from the door is their lot. Physical comforts, intellectual recreation, cultural elevation, are all beyond their reach. Nor are these conditions new. They are as old as the pessimistic vicw of life, mistakenly called, and fraudulently glorificd, as spiritualist. If 10-day this philosophy of life, which cffectively kills all incentive to progress, finds support in the gloomy and hopeless conditions of the life of the masses, it could not have arisen originally except on a similar social background. It could not have persisted through so many centuries, unless its social foundation remained unimpaired. “Ram Raj” is an
