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After all, what is the difference between the animal body
and the human ? If you see carefully, you .will see you
have discarded the tail, and instead of walking on four
legs you have been using two, and the other two you
have changed into hands. There have been slight but very
important changes in the brain and some de tails here and
there. You have cast off your fur and horns.

Disciple : Not all men ! K. has a lot of fur yet (Laughter)

Sri Aurobindo : You see, after all it is not so great a change
in the physical as would create a gulf between animal
and man!
( A B Purani, Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, Second Series,
Psychology, Page 238-239)

Animal Communication
Sri Aurobindo : People say animals can't think or rea-
son. It is not at all true. Their intelligence has evolved to
act only within the narrow limits of life, according to their
own needs. But they have latent faculties which have not
been developed.
Cats have a language of their own. They utter different
kinds of mews for different purposes. For instance, when
the mother cat mews in a particular tone and rhythm af-
ter leaving her kittens behind a box, the little ones under-
stand that they are not to move from that place until she
comes back and repeats that mew. It is through the tone
and the rhythm through the tone and the rhythm that
cats express themselves.
Even donkeys, which are supposed to be very stupid,
are sometimes unusually clever. Once some horses and
donkeys were confined together, with the gate shut, to

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