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atma

atma 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 atma

pluralatmas

Questions about atma

What is atma the alternative form of?
Atma is the alternative form of atman.

Words near atma in the dictionary

  1. Atlántida
  2. Atlético
  3. atm
  4. ATM machine
  5. ATM machines
  6. atma
  7. atman
  8. atmans
  9. Atmar
  10. atmark
  11. atmarks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: atma (page history and authors); atman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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