atman
pronunciation
How to pronounce atman in British English:
UK ['a:tmən]
How to pronounce atman in American English:
US ['atmən]
Word Origin
- atman (n.)
- 1785, from Sanskrit atma "essence, breath, soul," from PIE *etmen "breath" (a root found in Sanskrit and Germanic; cognates: Old English æðm, Dutch adem, Old High German atum "breath," Old English eþian, Dutch ademen "to breathe").
Example
- 1. The atman project : a transpersonal view of human development .
- 2. He already knew to feel atman in the depths of his being , indestructible , one with the universe .
- 3. She is the mother of the universe , identical with the brahman of vedanta , and with the atman of yoga .
- 4. I 've faced the death of my wife and several of my children , but I am concerned about this atman as a reality .
- 5. This third eye , in modern psychoanalysis , is referred to as the essential self , or in hinduism , as the atman .