• VISHNUPRIYA R NAIR

Abstract Humankind is going through a period of rootlessness, uncertainty, strife, struggle, existential angst, ‘wasteland’ subsistence and ‘waiting for godot’ existence. Such times call for a renewed thinking on spiritual and transcendental levels. This paper aims at making a thorough study and deep analysis Aurobindo’s ‘divinised man’ and Jung’s ‘modern man’ through the paradigm of Transpersonal Psychology. The theory of Transpersonal Psychology focuses on the spiritual aspect of man for attaining self-actualisation and self-fulfilment, a development from pre-personal to personal to transpersonal level, integrating the spiritual and transcendent aspects of experience. This realisation is central to the modern world which is filled with chaos and confusions - both within and outside the human mind. The study aims at furthering research carried out on the grounds of Transpersonal Psychology and gives a deep reading into the existential problems faced by the modern man and delivers the concept of an ideal man as envisioned by Aurobindo in his Essays Divine and Human and Carl Jung in The Modern Man and his Modern Problems. The study will contribute towards arriving at an answer to the present day existential crisis and crisis of basic human and spiritual values leading to a state of chaos, restlessness and fear of man in man. As Alexander Pope has rightly said, “The proper study of man is man”.

Transpersonal Psychology, modern man, spiritual values, human values, ideal man

"A Study of ‘Man’ in the Light of Transpersonal Psychology: An Analysis of the ‘Ideal Man’ of Aurobindo and Jung ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.311-320, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903G45.pdf

"A Study of ‘Man’ in the Light of Transpersonal Psychology: An Analysis of the ‘Ideal Man’ of Aurobindo and Jung ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp311-320, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903G45.pdf