Год выпуска: 1984
Автор: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Издательство: Pondicherry
Страниц: 456
Описание They say many things. Spiritual life does not depend upon these considerations, not at all. Certain social virtues depend upon them and solely because there exist in some environments special traditions of education and a particular education is better than others. But that is all. As for the question of not mixing blood, it is a subject for discussion. Because, for example, if you take the various kinds of dogs (excuse me, I do not mean to make an improper comparison), still, the dog belonging to its kind of breed, when great care is taken to keep the type pure, to prevent any mixture, becomes more and more stupid, whilst the street-dog, product of mixed breed and sometimes a horror from the physical point of view - it is hideous, made of one kind crossed with another - is generally much superior from the point of view of intelligence. So even in these cases one cannot say. . . . Marriages in small communities, made within the caste, where no mixture is allowed, end... |
