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Item Resurrection of the Self: A Comparative Thematic Study of Rumi’s Selected Poems and Hesse’s Siddhartha(UMT Lahore, 2018) Shazia ParveenThis research aims to deal with a person’s journey towards spiritual development. It underscores different stages which are essential to pass for a mystic to reach his or her goal, i.e. self-fulfillment, a higher state of a man’s existence in which Phenomenal Self immerses into the Divine Self. In order to chart out the stages of such a journey, this research does a thematic study of Hesse’s masterpiece, Siddhartha, and Rumi’s selected poems which has helped me to draw similar themes from both writers. The motive behind the selection of these texts is to highlight the phenomenon of resurrected self from two different perspectives i.e. Eastern Sufism and Western mysticism and to merge them to propose a comprehensive perspective to understand the Divine. Taking inspiration from Fowler, I have categorized the spiritual journey into three stages and named them as The Childhood Stage, The Adulthood stage and The Young Stage. At the first stage, a person remains focused on his/her selfish desires such as the desire to achieve reputation, honor and wealth which eventually leads him/her toward different recalcitrant feelings like jealousy, anger and hatred. At the second stage when a person becomes a little mature, s/he starts swimming against the current of childish attempts to attain happiness and struggles to find the eternal source of happiness and peace. At the third and the last stage, he achieves the ultimate source or truth of happiness and becomes a divine source for others. This research also highlights a person’s attitude, feelings and perceptions at different levels of his development. A comparative thematic study on Rumi and Hesse has not been done before and this research bridges this gap.