Meaning of ATMAN
 Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \At"man\, n. [Skr. [=a]tman.] (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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