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The teaching of Nietzsche is a pure nishkama dharma: “Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work!” and “All those modes of thinking,” he says, “which measure the worth of things according to pleasure and pain, are plausible modes of thought and naivetés, which everyone conscious of creative powers and an artist’s conscience will look down upon with scorn.” For the Superman as we should say, is not swayed by the pairs of opposites. ‘Do what ye will’: this doctrine is neither egotistic nor altruistic. Not egotistic, for to yield to all the promptings of the senses, to be the slave of caprice, is to be moulded by out environment, and the very reverse of far-willing: it is precisely himself the Superman may not spare. It is not altruistic, for where there is naught external to myself, there can be no altruism. The highest duty is that of self-realization. “Physician, heal thyself,” exclaims Nietzsche: “then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.”

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-Dance of Shiva