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Self vs Atman - What's the difference?

self | atman |

As nouns the difference between self and atman

is that self is the subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts while atman is (hinduism|buddhism|jainism|vedanta) the true self of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the essence of an individual.

As a pronoun self

is (obsolete) himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

As a verb self

is (botany) to fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.

As an adjective self

is (obsolete) same.

self

English

(wikipedia self)

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
    • This argument was put forward by the defendant self .
  • Myself.
    • I made out a cheque, payable to self , which cheered me up somewhat.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self . It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
  • * (1788-1856)
  • *:The self , the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
  • *, chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
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  • (lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

    • Derived terms

    * selfie

    Related terms

    * selfdom * selfhood * selfish * selfless * selflike * selfsame * myself, ourselves, yourself, thyself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself, one's self

    See also

    * self- * person * I * ego

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
  • (botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

    • Antonyms

    * outcross

    Adjective

  • (obsolete) same
  • * 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , I.i:
    • I am made of that self mettle as my sister.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • on these self hills
  • * Dryden
    • At that self moment enters Palamon.

    External links

    * *

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    atman

    English

    (wikipedia atman)

    Alternative spellings

    * Atman *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 , 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 .
  • * 2005 , Bansi Pandit, Explore Hinduism , 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.
  • * 2006 , Donald Goergen, Fire of Love: Encountering the Holy Spirit , 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.
  • * 2006 , Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation , Atlantic Books 2007, p. 84:
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Owen Flanagan, The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized , 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.

    Related terms

    * an?tman * anatt? * Sutratman

    Anagrams

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