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at⋅man

  [aht-muhn]
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–noun Hinduism.
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.
Also, at⋅ma  [aht-muh] .

Origin:
1775–85; < Skt ātman breath, self
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at·man   (ät'mən)   
n.   Hinduism
  1. The individual soul or essence.
  2. Atman The essence that is eternal, unchanging, and indistinguishable from the essence of the universe.

[Sanskrit ātman, breath, spirit.]
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Atman

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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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