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The Divine Superman
THIS is thy work and the aim of thy being and that for which thou art
here, to become the divine superman and a perfect vessel of the Godhead. All
else that thou hast to do, is only a making thyself ready or a joy by the way
or a fall from the purpose. But the goal is this and the purpose is this and
not in the power of the way or the joy by the way but in the joy of the goal is
the greatness and the delight of thy being. The joy of the way is because that
which is drawing thee is also with thee on thy path and the power to climb was
given thee that thou mightest mount to thy own summits.
If thou hast
a duty, this is thy duty; if thou askest what shall be thy aim, let this be thy
aim; if thou demandest pleasure, there is no greater joy, for all other joy is
broken or limited, the joy of a dream or the joy of a sleep or the joy of the
self-forgetting. But this is the joy of thy whole being. For if thou sayest
what is thy being, this is thy being, the Divine, and all else is only its
broken or its perverse appearance. If thou seekest the Truth, this is the
Truth. Place it before thee and in all things be faithful to it.
It has been well
said by one who saw but through a veil and mistook the veil for the face that
thy aim is to become thyself; and he said well again that the nature of man is
to transcend himself. This is indeed his nature and that is indeed the divine
aim of his self-transcending.
What then is the self
that thou hast to transcend and what is the Self that thou hast to become? For
it is here that thou shouldst make no error; for this error, not to know
thyself, is the fountain of all thy grief and the cause of all thy stumbling.
That which thou
hast to transcend is the self that thou appearest to be, and that is man as
thou knowest him, the apparent Purusha. And what is this man? He is a mental
being enslaved to life and matter; and where he is not enslaved to life and
matter, he is the slave of his mind. But this is a great and heavy
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servitude; for to be the slave of mind is to be the slave of the false, the
limited and the apparent.
The Self that thou
hast to become is that self that thou art within behind the veil of mind and
life and matter. It is to be the spiritual, the divine, the superman, the real
Purusha. For that which is above the mental being is the superman. It is to be
the master of thy mind, thy life and thy body; it is to be a king over Nature
of whom thou art now the tool, lifted above her who now has thee under her
feet. It is to be free and not a slave, to be one and not divided, to be
immortal and not obscured by death, to be full of light and not darkened, to be
full of bliss and not the sport of grief and suffering, to be uplifted into
power and not cast down into weakness. It is to live in the Infinite and
possess the finite It is to live in God and be one with him in his being. To
become thyself is to be this and all that flows from it.
Be free in thyself, and
therefore free in thy mind, free in thy life and thy body. For the Spirit is
freedom.
Be one with God and all beings; live in thyself and not in thy little ego. For
the Spirit is unity.
Be thyself immortal, and put not thy faith in death; for death is not of
thyself, but of thy body. For the Spirit is immortality.
To be immortal is to be infinite in being and consciousness and bliss; for the
Spirit is infinite and that which is finite lives only by his infinity. .
These things thou art, therefore
thou canst become all these; but if thou art not these things, then thou
couldst never become them. What is within thee, that alone can be revealed in
thy being. Thou appearest indeed to be other than this, but wherefore shouldst
thou enslave thyself to appearances?
Rather arise, transcend thyself,
become thyself. Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than
himself. He was the man-animal, he has become more than the animal man. He is
the thinker, the craftsman, the seeker after beauty. He shall be more than the
thinker, he shall be the seer of knowledge; he shall be more than the
craftsman, he shall be the creator and master of his creation; he shall be more
than the seeker of beauty, for he shall enjoy all beauty and all delight.
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Physical he seeks
for this immortal substance; vital he seeks after immortal life and the
infinite power of his being; mental and partial in knowledge, he seeks after
the whole light and the utter vision.
To possess these is to become
the superman; for he is to rise out of mind into the Supermind. Call it the
divine mind or Knowledge or the Supermind; it is the power and light of the
divine will and the divine consciousness. By the Supermind the Spirit saw and
created himself in the worlds, by that he lives in them and governs them. By
that he is Swarat Samrat, self-ruler and all-ruler.
Supermind is superman;
therefore to rise beyond mind is the condition.
To be the superman is to live the
divine life, to be a god; for the gods are the powers of God. Be a power of God
in humanity.
To live in the divine Being and let
the consciousness and bliss, the will and knowledge of the Spirit possess thee
and play with thee and through thee, this is the meaning.
This is the transfiguration of
thyself on the mountain. It is to discover God as thyself and reveal him to thyself
in all things. Live in his being, shine with his light, act with his power,
rejoice with his bliss. Be that Fire and that Sun and that Ocean. Be that joy
and that greatness and that beauty.
When thou hast done this even in
part, thou hast attained to the first steps of supermanhood.
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