Atman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Hinduism The individual soul or essence.
  • n. Hinduism The essence that is eternal, unchanging, and indistinguishable from the essence of the universe.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The soul; one's true self.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The life principle, soul, or individual essence.
  • n. The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • Word Usage
    "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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