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Trapped by the Social and Moral Code, or Beyond Good and Evil? · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that certain, individuals, by virtue
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  of their innate status. As Superior beings, could not be
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  bound by social rules or morality or ethics while the
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  implication may be understood to apply to those who have evolved
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  beyond the need for such contextual social rules.
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  The actual understanding and application of his philosophy
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  has made it clear that social norms were able to be trampled
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  underfoot by those who declared themselves to be superior with
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  us witnessed the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime, which
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  treated others, not members of their specific Clique or at the
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  very least their racial Origins as subhuman and thus could be
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  despised. Aged controlled enslaved,
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  tortured and exterminated. The staffs key explored, the
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  steam in crime and punishment, a college student raskolnikov
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  explored in his mind. And in a paper, he wrote and had
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  published. Whether a superior man, could
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  act with impunity and commit acts which would be constrained
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  in the normal social sense. Such a superior man, could
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  justify the actors being the price of the higher benefit.
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  Such a man could bring to society, he then determined to
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  carry out a theft in order to maintain his ability to continue
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  his education and make such a contribution as a superior man
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  beyond social conventions in the course of the theft.
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  He murdered two people The course of the book shows how he
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  remained Bound in his mind and in his being to the social
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  conventions and therefore did not fit his own definition of
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  the superior man he was caught and tried for his crime as a
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  result. He also gained the opportunity
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  for reflection about his misplaced ideas of superiority.
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  Clearly those individuals who arrogate to themselves a
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  superior status that need not abide by the moral and social
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  code of the society within which they live face a real test of
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  whether they are doing. So by following a true higher
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  law of whether they are doing it as an excuse to carry out, acts
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  that lower the Consciousness and demean their status in the human
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  scale. as the mother points out, however, and even more difficult
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  case in terms of spiritual growth and development lies in
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  those who are extremely conscientious about their
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  adherence to the Social and moral codes and reflect the
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  arrogance of the ego in their outward, superiority, They
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  remain rigid and bound by that framework, and thus are not
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  generally ready for nor receptive to the path of
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  spiritual growth to move upward, beyond the limits of their
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  current level of understanding and knowledge.
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  The mother notes quote. Now, I may put you on your guard
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  against something about people who live in their vital
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  Consciousness and say I am above moral laws.
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  I follow a higher law. I am free from harm all moral
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  laws and they say this because they want to indulge in all
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  irregularities. These people then have a double
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  in Purity, they have spiritual impurity and in addition, social
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  impurity And these usually have a very good opinion of
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  themselves and they assert their wish to live their life with an
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  unequaled impudence. Yet.
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  Usually the people whom I have found, most difficult to convert
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  are very respectable people. I'm sorry.
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  But I have had much more difficulty with respectable
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  people than with those who were not.
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  So for they had such a good opinion of themselves that it
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  was impossible to open them. But the true thing is difficult,
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  that is to say, one must be very Vigilant, and very
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  self-controlled, very patient, and have a never-failing.
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  Goodwill one must not neglect. Having a small dose of humility.
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  A sufficient, one, and one must never be satisfied.
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  With the sincerity. One has one must always want
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  more. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development, chapter for growth of Consciousness.
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  First steps and Foundation page 66.