Abstract

Though not a conscious philosopher, yet Sri Aurobindo’s contribution to world philosophy can hardly be over-estimated. His invaluable gift to posterity has been to show humankind the way to rise to higher levels of consciousness. For he was a Yogi who verified the Truth of the scriptures in the laboratory of his own soul, and upon it based his philosophy of dynamic, progressive spirituality. In the course of his Yoga he came to realize that Man, as he is today, is in a transitional phase. The journey of evolutionary man is from animality to Divinity and the final goal, the return to God. Man must be superseded by Superman, the next evolutionary emergent. In the Aurobindonian scheme, supermanhood is not an option, but a compulsion, satisfying a teleological necessity. My paper seeks to explore what this ‘supermanhood’ entails in terms of cosmic salvation and world transformation.