The Self Is Atma Critical Analysis

The Self, it has been said, is the meeting place of all truths and relationships. The issue of Self has long been a matter in various intellectual discourses. Philosophically, Self is Atma, intricately joined with Parmatma in Hinduism as well as in Buddhist philosophy. Psychologically, Sigmund Freud has extensively analysed and written about the Self. He relates the self from infancy till late age in personality development. An individual often identifies Self with intelligence, intellect, idea, memory, perception, reason and will. In the advanced modern society, man is essentially not able to completely understand himself, because he has come under the possession of a number of theories beyond his understanding and control. He suffers from a deep sense of powerlessness, abandonment and

He catches the bewilderment of the individual psyche, confronted with the overbearing socio-cultural environment and the ever-beckoning modern promise of self-gratification and self-fulfilment. Sensitively alive to the predicament of modern man, Joshi has ably delineated unfortunate consequences of the absence of values and faith in life. The awareness of man 's rootlessness and the consequential anxiety is the keynote of Joshi 's unique vision of the plight of modern man as he is sensitively aware of the complexities and confusions that too in Indian context. Joshi in particular looks deeply into the moral and spiritual crisis of the present day educated and urbanized Indians, and sets his focus on the moral confusion and anguish of sensitive individuals who feel restless, lonely and estranged from society. Joshi is not content with merely delineating the dilemmas and anxieties of the modern Indian, his cynicism, escapism and defeatist sense of alienation and nothingness, he goes beyond the crippling attitudes to search if human life has a meaning and