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aatma

aatma is the alternative form of atman.

Meaning of atman

Noun

atman (plural atmans)

  1. (Hinduism, Jainism) The true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman.
    • However, we have been led beyond this to a threefold analysis which in its western version is body-soul-spirit and in its eastern version body-mind-atman.1994, John Hick, Death and Eternal Life, page 450

Forms of aatma

pluralaatmas

Questions about aatma

What is aatma the alternative form of?
Aatma is the alternative form of atman.

Words near aatma in the dictionary

  1. aasvogels
  2. Aasáx
  3. AAT
  4. aatheist
  5. aatheists
  6. aatma
  7. aatman
  8. aatmans
  9. aatmas
  10. Aatxe
  11. Aatxegorri

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