atman
आत्मन् ātmanThe self or innermost spirit. In the Gita it is deathless and cannot be harmed, cut, burned, wetted, or dried; the body dies but the atman does not.
Where this term appears
- Charvaka: the Indian materialists Philosophy
If awareness is a property of the living body, then when the body dies, awareness ends. There is no soul ( atman ) that survives.
- Tat tvam asi: three readings Philosophy
The Self that you call "I," once you strip away the body, the senses, the moving stream of thoughts, is atman , and atman is Brahman .
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
It treats the personal God as the highest true form Brahman takes for the mind that still stands inside the world, and the qualityless absolute as the last word. The atman is the Self.
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
Something is still there, watching the stripping happen. The Upanishads call that watcher the atman , the self.
- Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials
Hinduism, especially in the Upanishads, affirms the atman : an eternal, unchanging true Self, deeper than body, personality, and the passing stream of thoughts.
- What happens after death in Hinduism? Essentials
But beneath it is the atman , the true self, pure awareness, and the atman is deathless.
- Why do Hindus cremate their dead? Essentials
But beneath it is the atman, the true self, and the atman is deathless.
- Who Was Adi Shankara? Philosophy
The innermost self, the atman, that each of us most truly is, is not a small thing inside the body.