atman

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atman (plural atmans)

(Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Vedanta) The true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman.

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Abhinavagupta offers for the first time a technical definition of rasa which is the universal bliss of the Self or Atman colored by the emotional tone of a drama. Source: Internet

Dvaita rejects this concept of identity and instead identifies the self (jiva) as a separate but similar part of Self, that only becomes one with the Absolute Atman upon Self Realisation (Moksha). Source: Internet

The Atman is the knower and also the known. citation Metaphysicians regard the Self either to be distinct from the Absolute or entirely identical with the Absolute. Source: Internet

Atman has received extra attention this week, thanks to his dad's title. Source: Internet

The Atman is unknowable in its essential nature; it is unknowable in its essential nature because it is the eternal subject who knows about everything including itself. Source: Internet

He also admits that his field of psychology is not competent in understanding the eastern insight of the Atman ‘the self’. Source: Internet

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