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atman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atman \At"man\, n. [Skr. [=a]tman.] (Hinduism)
The life principle, soul, or individual essence.
The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1785, from Sanskrit atma "essence, breath, soul," from PIE *etmen "breath" (a root found in Sanskrit and Germanic; cognates: Old English æðm, Dutch adem, Old High German atum "breath," Old English eþian, Dutch ademen "to breathe").
Wiktionary
n. (context Hinduism Buddhism Jainism Vedanta English) The true self of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the essence of an individual.
Wikipedia
Ātman is a Sanskrit word that means inner self or soul. In Hindu philosophy, especially in the Vedanta school of Hinduism, Ātman is the first principle, the true self of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the essence of an individual. In order to attain liberation, a human being must acquire self-knowledge (atma jnana), which is to realize that one's true self (Ātman) is identical with the transcendent self Brahman.
The six orthodox schools of Hinduism believe that there is Ātman (Soul, Self) in every being, a major point of difference with Buddhism, which does not believe that there is either soul or self.
Atman may refer to:
- Ātman (Hinduism), meaning 'self, soul', a philosophical concept common to all schools of Hindu philosophy
- Ātman (Buddhism), a reference to the essential self
- Ātman (Jainism), a philosophical term used within Jainism to identify the soul
- Atman jnana
- Atman (fashion)
- Atman, a 1997 documentary film by Pirjo Honkasalo
- Pavel Atman (born 1987), Russian handball player
Ātman, attā or attan in Buddhism refers to the concept of self, and is found in Buddhist literature's discussion of the concept of non-self ( Anatta).
Although the Buddha argued that no permanent, unchanging "self" can be found, some Buddhist schools, sutras and tantras present the notion of an atman or permanent "Self", although mostly referring to an Absolute and not to a personal self.
Atman is a 1997 documentary film by Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo about two Indian brothers on a pilgrimage. It is the final installment of Honkasalo's "Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic", preceded by Mysterion (1991) and Tanjuska and the 7 Devils (1993). Atman received the Joris Ivens Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Usage examples of "atman".
Instead they were busy surrounding with a classically retrograde cult of personality a certain mathematics professor, neither charismatic nor even personable, named Weed Atman, who had ambled into celebrity.
So did he envision himself counseling and educating Weed Atman, a dialogue in which together they might explore American realities in the light of this low-hanging Eastern lamp but Weed, much to his dismay, turned out to be all but silent.
AS a resident of the everyday world, Weed Atman may have had his points, but as a Thanatoid he rated consistently low on most scales, including those that measured dedication and community spirit.
He would not after all be lucky enough to sit under that oak on that dreamed hillside someday with a miraculously saved Weed Atman, in some 1980s world of the future.
There might have been about a minute and a half, just after the events at College of the Surf, the death of Weed Atman, and the fall of PR.
Ortho Bob stopped by with Weed Atman, both of them acting chirpy for the first time DL could remember.
Up from Eden and The Atman project are two books that cover the micro and macro branch of human evolution in, respectively, phylogeny and ontogeny.
Vedanta and Vijnanavada identify the absolute with something that is experienced in some form even empiricallythe Vedanta with Pure Being which is Atman and the Vijnanavada with Consciousness.
There is no good approximation for Atman in the West, and many people might wonder why the soul has to be divided in this way.
The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.
If you ask me how Brahman and atman relate precisely, I would say in the same way the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit relate: mysteriously.
But one thing is clear: atman seeks to realize Brahman, to be united with the Absolute, and it travels in this life on a pilgrimage where it is born and dies, and is born again and dies again, and again, and again, until it manages to shed the sheaths that imprison it here below.
The Spirit corresponds to the Atman, and the Soul to the psychic being.
He began with chowder, proceeded to braised atman haunch sided with rubelo, sugar-grass, thet eyes, and Lima beans, and ended with a large slice of cheesecake.
Gezwungen, durch den Mund zu atmen, oeffnete er die duennen Lippen, und seine Wangen, sommersprossig und von Stubenluft fahl, erschlafften und fielen ein.