ABSTRACT
MANY great philosophers have pointed to the Self when the question: What is the nature of reality? has been put to them. But they differed from each other in their conception of the Self. Fichte thought that the Ego is the ultimate reality. Kant said that Self-consciousness is the condition and the possibility of all consciousness of objects whatsoever. Hegel posited the Absolute or Self-consciousness as the criterion of all truth. Sankara points to the ãtman for understanding his Supreme Brahman, and holds that they are ultimately identical. Even Bergson points to the Self as the clue to understanding pure change. Yet all these do not agree as to the nature of the Self.
