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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
Though we are not living in any law of the jungle as Dr.K.C.V. would put it “yet man is untamed in parts, rational in a few, and the application of rationality in all spheres of human behaviour, personal or social, individual or collective has been tardy and perilous.” However it is not proper to consider the higher and the lower Natures in us as opposed to each other and that there is hardly any possibility of bringing about harmony between the two. Most religions and philosophies wisely or unwisely have fostered the oppositional view of these two natures, so much so they have vowed to exterminate the lower nature. The misfortune however is that the processes they adopted to exterminate it has been precisely the manner of the lower nature. The repression of the lower mind was sought to be done by the higher using the methods of the lower or the higher is given a role similar to that of the wolf draped as sheep or the brute concealed in the robes of a saint.
Two ways were open, one that meant withdrawal of man from the society following the laws of the lower nature and the other was to struggle with the forces of the animal with the help of reason, dialectics, and bring about a mental change in social thinking. The former led to the cult of the
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