jivatman
जीवात्मन् jivatmanThe individual self or living soul, said in the chakra texts to dwell at the heart centre (anahata) like the steady flame of a lamp in a windless place.
Where this term appears
- Anahata: The Unstruck Sound Treatise
Here, the Sat-chakra-nirupana says, dwells the individual self, the jivatman , and it describes it in one of the most quoted images in the whole literature: the self at the heart is like the steady, tapering fl…
- Is your soul the same as the ātman? Journal
The tradition has a word for it, and the word is not ātman. It is jiva , or jivatman , the individuated self.