The Vedanta Kesari February 1938

The word Superman is used here not in the Nitzschean sense but in its spiritual significance so as to include all the Varying conceptions of perfection found in the important religions of the world.] I HE best revelation of God to man is in the life of persons who truly embody the ideal of holness. [...] The attainment of Buddhahood is the result of the long and arduous practice of the discipline of self-sacrfice. [...] birth the status of the Buddha or the Enlightened One—a state that differs from that of the Arhat or perfected man in that the latter gives one the power of saving oneself alone while the Buddha by renouncing the idea of individual salvation and by repeaedly devoting himself to the service of others even at the cost of great pesonal suffering gains the capacity to redeem the world. [...] Thus in the Buddhist doctrine of the Superman we find a gradual passage of thought from the conception of him as purely human and a product of systematic training and discipline to the notion of him as an epiphany— the manifestation of the Supreme Principle in a human form. [...] She is present in the Veda behind the numerous gods like the power behind the throne in the dim half-perceived figure of Aditi the Mother of the Gods of whom it is said Aditi is heaven ; Aditi is the firmament; Aditi is mother father and son; Aditi is all the gods; Aditi is the 49 five classes of men; Aditi is genera tion and birth " (Rig Veda).