Atman

The Atman, also atma, in the Hindu philosophy, is the divine spirit in man, the spiritual life principle of the universe inherent in the real self of the individual, the person's soul.

As the divine spirit, Atman the absolute, was considered the Supreme God, the Paramatma, centred in the heart of the universe, and appears with dazzling effect in the sun, the heart and eye of the world, and is the same there as in the heart of man.

In ancient India, it was first conceived of as a small being having its seat in the heart, where it may be felt stirring, travelling whence along the arteries it peers out as a small image in the eye, the pupil. However, the best of the Indian philosophers believed Atman the absolute all pervading or omnipresent, who is the essence of everything that exists.

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