Chitta Ranjan Das was a post-oppositional philosopher and threshold person. To support this claim about Das, this chapter relates events and themes in his life and work to insights from: the history of South Asia’s first successful land rights movement; Bábí philosophy; Indigenous understandings of creative moral power; Noel Chabani Manganyi’s writing on violent reverie and the artist’s creative act; and post-colonial theorizing of the universal.  Significantly, to appreciate Das’s critical turn to Nature and to the lives of people in poverty we must discern how he engaged with the spiritual architecture undergirding the “true servant’s” station. Das not only affirmed the role of arts and literature in social transformation. More foundationally, he advocated for a humanistic direction in education. Virtuous learning communities informed by this approach address concerns related to the meaning of true servitude. They focus humanistically on tapasayas (cultivation of cleansing inner fire or heat), and on a liberalism that honors interiority and thus protects conditions for social, ethical creativity. Considering Das as a threshold person and drawing attention to these post-oppositional dimensions of his philosophies can help to guide the work of social scientists and others because it teaches us about the nature of transformative justice.