Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The individual soul or essence.
- noun The essence that is eternal, unchanging, and indistinguishable from the essence of the universe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The soul as it is conceived by the Brahman philosophers: the existence of it is denied by the Buddhists. The soul of the universe is equally called
atman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The life principle, soul, or individual essence.
- noun The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.
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- noun Hinduism The
soul ; one's true self.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the original, the word atman is used in various senses.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The non-Buddhist Indian schools talk about atman, which is roughly translated as "self" or "soul"; and in other non-Indian religious traditions we hear discussion about the "soul" of the being and so on.
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The non-Buddhist Indian schools talk about atman, which is roughly translated as "self" or "soul"; and in other non-Indian religious traditions we hear discussion about the "soul" of the being and so on.
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The non-Buddhist Indian schools talk about atman, which is roughly translated as "self" or "soul"; and in other non-Indian religious traditions we hear discussion about the "soul" of the being and so on.
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The non-Buddhist Indian schools talk about atman, which is roughly translated as "self" or "soul"; and in other non-Indian religious traditions we hear discussion about the "soul" of the being and so on.
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Persons lack a “soul,” an atman, that is unaffected by anything, partless, and separable from a body and a mind, and which can be cognized on its own.
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Persons lack a “soul,” an atman, that is unaffected by anything, partless, and separable from a body and a mind, and which can be cognized on its own.
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They also show that divinity, such as the deities of the temples, is pure like the atman, which is not affected by sexual desires and other characteristics of the physical body.
WN.com - Articles related to Hindus in ritual tongue-piercing in east India 2010
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They also show that divinity, such as the deities of the temples, is pure like the atman, which is not affected by sexual desires and other characteristics of the physical body.
WN.com - Articles related to Hindus in ritual tongue-piercing in east India 2010
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They also show that divinity, such as the deities of the temples, is pure like the atman, which is not affected by sexual desires and other characteristics of the physical body.
WN.com - Articles related to Hindus in ritual tongue-piercing in east India 2010
herrherr commented on the word atman
atman is brahman=]
February 10, 2009