{"id":474,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=474"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:14","slug":"16-the-divine-superman-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17\/16-the-divine-superman-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","title":{"rendered":"-16_The Divine Superman.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nThe Divine Superman<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n                          
\n<\/font> <\/span>
\n
\nT<\/span>HIS<\/font> is thy work and the aim of thy being and that for which thou art
\nhere, to become the divine superman and a perfect vessel of the Godhead. All
\nelse that thou hast to do, is only a making thyself ready or a joy by the way
\nor a fall from the purpose. But the goal is this and the purpose is this and
\nnot in the power of the way or the joy by the way but in the joy of the goal is
\nthe greatness and the delight of thy being. The joy of the way is because that
\nwhich is drawing thee is also with thee on thy path and the power to climb was
\ngiven thee that thou mightest mount to thy own summits.
\n            If thou hast
\na duty, this is thy duty; if thou askest what shall be thy aim, let this be thy
\naim; if thou demandest pleasure, there is no greater joy, for all other joy is
\nbroken or limited, the joy of a dream or the joy of a sleep or the joy of the
\nself-forgetting. But this is the joy of thy whole being. For if thou sayest
\nwhat is thy being, this is thy being, the Divine, and all else is only its
\nbroken or its perverse appearance. If thou seekest the Truth, this is the
\nTruth. Place it before thee and in all things be faithful to it.
\n           It has been well
\nsaid by one who saw but through a veil and mistook the veil for the face that
\nthy aim is to become thyself; and he said well again that the nature of man is
\nto transcend himself. This is indeed his nature and that is indeed the divine
\naim of his self-transcending.
\n          What then is the self
\nthat thou hast to transcend and what is the Self that thou hast to become? For
\nit is here that thou shouldst make no error; for this error, not to know
\nthyself, is the fountain of all thy grief and the cause of all thy stumbling.
\n           That which thou
\nhast to transcend is the self that thou appearest to be, and that is man as
\nthou knowest him, the apparent Purusha. And what is this man? He is a mental
\nbeing enslaved to life and matter; and where he is not enslaved to life and
\nmatter, he is the slave of his mind. But this is a great and heavy<\/p>\n

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servitude; for to be the slave of mind is to be the slave of the false, the
\nlimited and the apparent.
\n           The Self that thou
\nhast to become is that self that thou art within behind the veil of mind and
\nlife and matter. It is to be the spiritual, the divine, the superman, the real
\nPurusha. For that which is above the mental being is the superman. It is to be
\nthe master of thy mind, thy life and thy body; it is to be a king over Nature
\nof whom thou art now the tool, lifted above her who now has thee under her
\nfeet. It is to be free and not a slave, to be one and not divided, to be
\nimmortal and not obscured by death, to be full of light and not darkened, to be
\nfull of bliss and not the sport of grief and suffering, to be uplifted into
\npower and not cast down into weakness. It is to live in the Infinite and
\npossess the finite It is to live in God and be one with him in his being. To
\nbecome thyself is to be this and all that flows from it.
\n         Be free in thyself, and
\ntherefore free in thy mind, free in thy life and thy body. For the Spirit is
\nfreedom.<\/p>\n

        
\nBe one with God and all beings; live in thyself and not in thy little ego. For
\nthe Spirit is unity. <\/p>\n

        
\nBe thyself immortal, and put not thy faith in death; for death is not of
\nthyself, but of thy body. For the Spirit is immortality. <\/p>\n

       
\nTo be immortal is to be infinite in being and consciousness and bliss; for the
\nSpirit is infinite and that which is finite lives only by his infinity. .
\n        These things thou art, therefore
\nthou canst become all these; but if thou art not these things, then thou
\ncouldst never become them. What is within thee, that alone can be revealed in
\nthy being. Thou appearest indeed to be other than this, but wherefore shouldst
\nthou enslave thyself to appearances?
\n        Rather arise, transcend thyself,
\nbecome thyself. Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than
\nhimself. He was the man-animal, he has become more than the animal man. He is
\nthe thinker, the craftsman, the seeker after beauty. He shall be more than the
\nthinker, he shall be the seer of knowledge; he shall be more than the
\ncraftsman, he shall be the creator and master of his creation; he shall be more
\nthan the seeker of beauty, for he shall enjoy all beauty and all delight.<\/p>\n

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Physical he seeks
\nfor this immortal substance; vital he seeks after immortal life and the
\ninfinite power of his being; mental and partial in knowledge, he seeks after
\nthe whole light and the utter vision.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>To possess these is to become
\nthe superman; for he is to rise out of mind into the Supermind. Call it the
\ndivine mind or Knowledge or the Supermind; it is the power and light of the
\ndivine will and the divine consciousness. By the Supermind the Spirit saw and
\ncreated himself in the worlds, by that he lives in them and governs them. By
\nthat he is Swarat Samrat, self-ruler and all-ruler.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Supermind is superman;
\ntherefore to rise beyond mind is the condition. <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>To be the superman is to live the
\ndivine life, to be a god; for the gods are the powers of God. Be a power of God
\nin humanity. <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>To live in the divine Being and let
\nthe consciousness and bliss, the will and knowledge of the Spirit possess thee
\nand play with thee and through thee, this is the meaning. <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This is the transfiguration of
\nthyself on the mountain. It is to discover God as thyself and reveal him to thyself
\nin all things. Live in his being, shine with his light, act with his power,
\nrejoice with his bliss. Be that Fire and that Sun and that Ocean. Be that joy
\nand that greatness and that beauty.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>When thou hast done this even in
\npart, thou hast attained to the first steps of supermanhood.<\/p>\n

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