Definitions for Atman

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Atman at·man

Spelling: [aht-muh n]

IPA: /ˈɑt mən/

Atman is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Atman (aamnt).

Definitions for Atman

noun

1. the principle of life.
2. the individual self, known after enlightenment to be identical with Brahman.
3. (initial capital letter) the World Soul, from which all individual souls derive, and to which they return as the supreme goal of existence.

Origin of Atman

First recorded in 1775-85, atman is from the Sanskrit word ātman breath, self

Examples for Atman

But no; for when the body suffers or perishes, atman would perish.

No longer, I want to begin my thoughts and my life with atman and with the suffering of the world.

atman means "breathing;" paramatman "the highest breathing."

Was not atman in him, did not the pristine source spring from his heart?

For whom else were offerings to be made, who else was to be worshipped but Him, the only one, the atman?

Or may not the atman, the supreme ego, be simply the man in dreamless sleep, in perfect repose?

He already knew to feel atman in the depths of his being, indestructible, one with the universe.

atman the highest person, whom the sage finally discovers in himself, lies also at the bottom of all other beings than himself.

atman, the subjective ego, is identical with Brahma, the objective ego.

This one essence or Self (atman) permeates the whole Universe.