• Mudita Choudhary
• Dr Sucharita Sharma

Existentialism is an incredible aspect because of its intrinsic aspect in solving the fundamental human problem. Its applicability has gone beyond the era, time, space and culture. The article explores the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground through the existential discourse of Sartre, dealing with the shaken existence of an individual who is very intricately characterized. The research is an endeavor to trace the long existing tussle amidst human perceptions and actions. The world that is weaved in the text projects a very universal frame of human conscious. The characters are endowed with a wide array of scope to understand a man’s self- crafted illusionary trap, and this trap is displayed in the cognitive conflict of man’s internal and external world. This research also attempts to find evidences of existential ideas in Indian classical texts like Bhagvad Gita, exploring the dispute of ‘existence’ and ‘being’ vis-à-vis the Philosophical approach of Gita in projecting a wide spectrum of human psychology with their multiple nature and needs to attain the ultimate ‘freedom to choose’.

Existential, Self - Deception, Conflict, Action, Freedom

"Existentialism in Notes from the Underground through the Lens of Gita’s Philosophical Discourse", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.421-430, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903169.pdf

"Existentialism in Notes from the Underground through the Lens of Gita’s Philosophical Discourse", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp421-430, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903169.pdf