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aatman

aatman 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 aatman

pluralaatmans

Questions about aatman

What is aatman the alternative form of?
Aatman is the alternative form of atman.

Words near aatman in the dictionary

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

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