Athan vs Atman - What's the difference?
athan | atman |
(Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Vedanta) The true self of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the essence of an individual.
* 1994 , John Hick, Death and Eternal Life ,
* 2005 , Bansi Pandit, Explore Hinduism ,
* 2006 , Donald Goergen, Fire of Love: Encountering the Holy Spirit ,
* 2006 , Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation , Atlantic Books 2007, p. 84:
* 2011 , Owen Flanagan, The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized ,
As nouns the difference between athan and atman
is that athan is rectum while atman is atman.atman
English
(wikipedia atman)Alternative spellings
* Atman *Noun
(en noun)page 450,
- 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 .
page 63,
- Atman' is the manifestation of ''brahman'' in the human body. The central theme of the Upanishads is that in the liberated state the '''atman''' is identical with ''brahman''.In the Western view, the soul is created by God. In the Hindu view, the ' atman , being eternal, is not created by God. It is a part of God.
page 151,
- The human being in Hindu thought comprises Atman' (or ''Punisha'') and ''Maya'' (or ''Prakriti''). The Hindu doctrine of ' Atman concerns one's deepest identity.
- The priests who were immersed in the ritual science of the Brahmanas began to speculate on the nature of the self, and gradually the word "atman " came to refer to the essential and eternal core of the human person, which made him or her unique.
page 124,
- The Brahmanic tradition that Buddhism is both connected to and a reaction against was, according to almost every scholar, over the top as regards atman'. So, not only were individuals possessed of an immutable, indestructible ' atman . Some, perhaps many Brahmins were asserting that they were ATMAN.