SOURCE: "Emergent Ego," in Whitman in the Light of Vedantic Mysticism: An Interpretation, University of Nebraska Press, 1964, pp. 53-93.
In the following essay, Chari stresses the centrality of the notion of the self in Whitman's poetry, demonstrating the parallels between Whitman's conception of the self as the meaning of existence and the totality of reality, and the view of the self offered by Hindu mysticism.
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