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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
concern comes from the sense of ownership. A hired labourer, for example, does not evince any particular concern for the land he has hired to cultivate or for the crops that would result from his labour. Just as land is appreciated not by itself, but as means of production, just so is the woman valued by the husband. This relation between man and woman finds its crassest expression in the socio-religious law of the Hindus which permits man to take a new wife when the old one fails to bear children. One plot of land failed to bear you the desired fruit; acquire another. The woman is a mere means of production.
Among animals, the relation between the male and female is not that of ownership. Therefore, the male performs the father's role as a biological function. Like a hired labourer, not possessing the right of ownership in the land, the male animal performs his fatherly function with no attachment for the fruits of his labour. Having no property to transmit, he is not encumbered with the cultivated feeling called paternal instinct.
The female's part in the biological process of reproduction being greater, the mother animal cares for her progeny a little longer than her male partner in the process. Motherly care, however, ends as soon as the young ones are able to shift for themselves. If you want to find the philosophy of Gita-Nishkam karma-practised, then, turn your back upon the spiritually minded human
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