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‖ atman Hindu Philos.|ˈɑːtmæn|
[Skr. ātmán essence, the highest personal principle of life; cf. OE. ǽðm, éðm breath, ethem.]
The self or soul; the supreme principle of life in the universe.
1785C. Wilkins tr. Bhagvat xiii. 105 He who beholdeth all his actions performed by Prăkrĕĕtĕĕ, nature, at the same time perceiveth that the Ătmă or soul is inactive in them. 1859J. R. Ballantyne Christianity contr. w. Hindu Philos. p. xxiii, The soul (ātman) is spoken of as an entirely different entity from the mind (manas). 1867Max Müller Chips I. iii. 70 For âtman, originally breath or spirit, comes to mean Self and Self alone. 1933J. Baillie Life Everl. v. 139 The soul of man is atman, and atman is Brahma, the one supreme reality. 1945A. Huxley Time must have Stop xxx. 275 ‘Devotion can be defined as the search for the reality of one's own Atman.’ And the Atman, of course, is the spiritual principle in us, which is identical with the Absolute. |