ABSTRACT

Man as perfect will need no world save the man. World at its worthiest is in the worthiest man. By the man was meant he who is there and here sometimes termed the man-in-man. That is, the man considered as having body and mind as adjuncts, instruments, which are not he. In Sakya there arose a theory of man at his worthiest. It was not the mandate of Siddhattha Gotama. This had pointed to the man as wayfarer faring, that is growing, becoming, towards an uttermost end, positively worded as artha, paramartha, a consummation not to be won on earth, but referred to as Param, beyond. In the theory of man become "worthy", arahan, the man is conceived as finished, in becoming, now, or at most in one more onward stage only elsewhere. The man at his highest is his world at its best.