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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



... The same writer tells us that in reality there is but one God, but he does not call him the Lord, or the Highest God, the Creator, Ruler, and Preserver of all things, but he calls him A t m a n, THE SELF. The one Atman or Self, he says, is praised in many ways owing to the greatness of the godhead. And then he goes on to say: "The other gods are but so many members of the one Atman, Self, and thus it has been said that the poets compose their praises ...
— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller

... dialogue is the opposition of day and night, typifying delusion and reality, avidya and Atman. ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight



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