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Atman   Listen
noun
Atman  n.  (Hinduism)
(a)
The life principle, soul, or individual essence.
(b)
The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.






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"Atman" Quotes from Famous Books



... Atman is no individual property of any man, but is the Divine Essence which has no body, no form, which is imponderable, invisible, and indivisible, that which does not exist and yet is, as the Buddhists say of Nirvana. It only ...
— Death—and After? • Annie Besant

... later been elaborated into whole philosophical systems. Originally, however, they are merely "different methods of arriving at the same end, namely the attainment of the Atman [all spirit] which on the one hand is spread out as the whole infinite universe and on the other is to be completely and wholly found in the inner life. In the first sense Atman can be gained by meditation on the multiplex phenomena of the universe and their ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer



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