Atman means self, soul, me, consciousness. It is in one sense synonymous with Brahman. It would be akin to the word “breath” or the German word “Atmen. It is a concept from Hinduism and has a universal character. It is not the only one I universal ikgevoel particular person but of everyone.
According to the Advaita Vedanta philosophy is atman in its core essence identical with the cosmic Self, the Brahman (world soul). This “pure consciousness” is therefore the true Self of man, that all perceptions, thoughts and feelings remain unchanged as “unmoved mover”. As Atman and Brahman as one and the same principle be seen, it qualifies as a monistic Advaita Vedanta philosophy.
The concept is based on the idea that the phenomenon I am here “for each of us always and everywhere true. It is the perceiving consciousness itself that – paradoxically – so obvious to everyone present at all times is that almost everyone misses. The feeling is forever associated. It is like the water in which the fish swims who wonders what the water. It is the pure essence that remains when everything else has gone or even re-emerge.
The root of atman is hardly known, their origin is uncertain, but the general meaning is that of himself. The highest part of man – the Self, pure consciousness per se. The essential and fundamental force or power in man that he, and indeed any other creature or thing, it gives a sense of self or consciousness to be. It is not the ego.
This principle (atman) is universal, according to Theosophical teachings from or (emanates) from Atman the understanding (buddhi), and take off again Buddhi emanates the mind (Manas), and further Manas desire (kama), and so further kama the life force (prana) into the time space in which the event is a fact and an incarnation in a (form and matter) body can also exist by emanation.
Atman is sometimes so the universal Self or the Universal Spirit uses, whose name in Sanskrit writings Brahman (neuter) is given, and the Brahman or universal spirit is also called Paramatman. It is the source or cause of the ego-feeling “.
Man is by three principles in the surrounding cosmos rooted (the Gunas), which difficulty may be said to be above the first or atman, but which is actually the highest and most elevated parts of Atman are the same.
