Questions tagged [atma]
Atma or Atman means our soul (Jivatma) or the supreme soul (Paramatma)
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What is Advaita?
(Using the "body" and "hand" instead of "Brahman" and "Atman")
Ramanuja says, "the hand is the same as the body but the hand is not the body itself".
Madhu says, "the hand is not the body and the ...
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Why do some souls remain on earth after leaving the body after death?
When death happens, the soul should leave the body and it should go back to it's original realm (whatever or wherever that place is).
But we encounter stories of ghosts or spirits on earth. Why do ...
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Can atma enter into other living jivas?
There are few things confuse me about what happen to atma after death, even after reading this thread.
There are some slokas which are used in narayan bali puja, I think those slokas are from vedas ...
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Who or what attains moksha?
When we talk about liberation among the living i.e the jeevanmukts, is it their aatman which has achieved realization? If not the aatman, that what/who? For those who have done good karma in this ...
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Where do souls stay until they reincarnate?
I'm certain that they do not reincarnate as soon as they die.
So where do they stay until they reincarnate?
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How does one know that how many births he/she is yet to take? And is his/her present level of conciousness?
As per the book Immortal talks, every soul has a level like T12 or T13; T14 being the highest. How do we know which level soul are we?
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Are “antarAtmA” (inner self) and “antaryAmI” (inner controller) the same in vedAnta?
Answer might depend on the school of vedAnta. That is fine. I want to know the position of different schools.
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Can complete pure souls exist in Kali Yuga?
According to the scriptures, is there any mention of whether complete pure souls can exist in Kali Yuga?
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Who is actually learning? Is it Atman or me?
If I am learning something like learning physics or chemistry or maths means who is learning? Is it Atman or my brain?
If Atman means why can't it (Atman) realize after death that I belong to this ...
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What happens to the soul when someone commit suicide?
What happens to the soul when one commits suicide?
Does the rebirth takes instantly?
Do the suicide soul try to make contact with family and friends?
Is it true that the suicide soul has to stay ...
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Do clones have souls?
Do animal and plant clones have souls? (Such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep))
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How can there be two individual selves in advaita?
If the Absolute reality is termed as Brahman from an universal POV and the same is termed as Atman from an individual POV, then what about Jiva. Doesn't that makes two individual selves, namely Atman ...
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How does Brahman or Atman witness?
When Krishna says in Gita that Atman, the universal consciousness only witnesses but performs no action, what exactly did he mean by it?
Does Atman needs to have a mind/body to witness everything or ...
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How do Vishishtadvaitins interpret this passage from the Vishnu Purana?
Having thus spoken to Nidāgha, the
Brāhmaṇa Ṛbhu went away, leaving his
disciple profoundly impressed, by his
instructions, with belief in unity. He beheld all
beings thenceforth as the same ...
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Surya Kanta Bose Chowdhury
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Bondage of jiva according to Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya
In the Vishishtadvaita philosophy followed by the Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya, the conditioned souls trapped in Samsara (the cycle of repeated birth and death) are referred to as Baddhas. How is the ...
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Shankara's Gita Bhasya says that the Self transmigrates. Is this true?
Advaitins mostly believe that the Self doesn't transmigrate and that it's the subtle body (known as jiva/jivatma) that actually does. But then in Shankara's Gita bhasya it is mentioned that the self ...
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What exactly is dehi according to advaita and vaishnava school?
People of Advaita sect believe that Atman never remains locked or trapped IN the body. The same thing has been said by many hindoos in quora as well. (They are followers of advaita).
If what the ...
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The two definitions of soul. Which one is true? [closed]
The vaishnavas or dualists claim that souls/jivatmas are separate sparks of light that are distinct from the subtle body and resides within the cave of subtle body/antahkarana/hridaya and upon mukti ...
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Does number of souls increase? [duplicate]
When an jiva attains moksha, it leaves the earth and doesn't take any further birth.
So, by this process of attaining moksha, the number of souls on earth decrease.
But, in these days the population ...
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What is a broad summary of the differences and similarities between Bhaktic and Vedantic Hinduism? [closed]
Eastern Orthodox theologian, David Bentley Hart mentioned during an interview that he is able to reconcile the Christian Trinity with "certain schools of Bhaktic Hinduism and Vedanta".
This got me ...
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is there any relation between Sperm and Human Soul? [duplicate]
is there any relation between human birth,soul and sperm?
If there is no relation when Soul enters in human body during pregnancy?
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Does the fragmental Atman travels?
Shankara in one of his verses gives the definition of jiva -""When the omnipresent Atman is limited or embodied by the mind,ego of subtle body, it is called jiva"".
I think what he means is, once the ...
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On what basis do Hindu philosophies say Atman exist? [duplicate]
Hindu philosophies, especially Vedanta, say there is 'the Self' which is the reason for the existence of our human body. However, science hasn't proven the existence of that. Moreover, according to ...
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What is meant by hridaya or heart?
Prabhupada in his Gita commentaries mentions the phrase "cave of the heart", where he says dwells the atomic soul.
Even Ramana Maharshi said, that the godly atom of the Self is to be found in the ...
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Does Bhagavad Gita state that “… Atmaa discards old bodies and assumes new bodies”? [duplicate]
While watching a famous hit Hindi movie Kudarat (1981), I came across a place where the protagonist states below in a court:
"In Gita, the blessed lord has told that, how human throws away old ...
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If I born as male in this life can my soul transmigrate and became female in next life? [duplicate]
I have this question in my mind since when I knew about soul, can a person who is male and his soul in next life can be female?
I hope its pretty clear, if not please let me know. My english might ...
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How long does it take for an atma to take rebirth? [duplicate]
According to Bhagavad Gita atma keeps on taking rebirth.So my question how long does it take for an atma to take rebirth?
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In non-dualism does Atman reincarnate or transmigrate?
I've read that a small portion of the infinite spirit Brahman, becomes embodied. This embodied portion is called Atman. So does Atman reincarnate or goes from one body to another?
Again, if Brahman ...
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When does a soul lose its memory of its previous birth?
I have studied in our texts that a soul will have the memory of its previous births after death, and before birth. My question is when does the soul lose its memory when entering into a body for a ...
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Is liberation for mind or Atman?
When we see all the practices from vedas, puranas, Yoga, and all scriptures, ithihasa, the theme has been to purify the mind and detach it from world. They never talked about on how to grow your Atman ...
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Is it true that the total number of souls remains constant as per Bhagavad Gita? [duplicate]
According to Gita,is it true that the total number of souls remains constant?
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What is the difference and connection between Atman and Nirguna Brahman [duplicate]
There is a question that asks for the difference between jiva atman, Atman and Paramatman and it does not answer my inquiry. I wish to know about the difference between Atmans Ananda essence and ...
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What scriptures talk of difference in leaving the body consciously and unconsciously which is death?
We have reference on what happens after death and before next birth of the soul. What will be the experience of us,as per ancient texts and how we will be if we leave this body at will, and leave this ...
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How did my existence is in place at first? Why am there as me and not as anyone? [duplicate]
This question could be a tricky one and may look confused but it's not so. Why my own existence is confined to "me" and why I did not exist as God or some other being? Why my existence came as my ...
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What is the difference between Nirvikalpa Samadi and Moksha?
When the jivatman unites with Paratman, Ananda of spirit is experienced is this Moksha or Nirvikalpa Samadi what is the difference ?
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Does the individual soul actually feel pleasure or pain?
In Gita ch.13 v23 , the Lord says that the Supreme Purusha in this body is the upadrista (observer) , the anumanta (permitter) , bharta (supporter) and bhokta (the experiencer / the one who ...
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Did Brahman split into multiple souls?
Here's a verse from Chandogya Upanishad , chapter six.
"It (Being or Brahman) thought: ‘May I be many; may I grow forth."
My question is, when Brahman, the supreme cosmic spirit , wished to ...
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Is the goddess Bhumi the Maya of Atman
Bhumi is the coat the dress of Atman so if all sentient beings are born.
How did Atman become a jiva Atman ?
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What separates the Avatar from Atman and Paramatman
As the Avatar is seen or has been seen in his physical or ethereal body, both without and within. What separates him from Atman and Paramatman ?
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What is the Soul’s journey after death [duplicate]
What is the soul’s journey after the death? Where and how long does it travel?
If a person was chanting Lord Rama’s name an hour before all his consciousness shut down and dying, where does his soul ...
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Is me and my body seperate?
If I survive after the destruction of my body then is it not true that me and my body are seperate ? If yes, then where do I live without the body ? ( Please answer according to the school you believe ...
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Is Guru-Shishya relation carry forward across multiple births? [duplicate]
Rebirth, a major tenet of Hinduism, is when the soul, which is seen as eternal and part of a spiritual realm, returns to the physical realm in a new body.
There are multiple mentions of rebirth in ...
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Soul separation and diversification
When how and why did Atman separate from the greater Self and when how and why the diversification into the multitude of sentient beings ? Is this separation and diversification only an illusion ?
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What is the intention of the following Rigvedic verse to the Spirit
Rig Veda Book - 10 Hymn 58 is dedicated to Maanas which Griffith translates as Spirit. I am sharing the mantras here:
1 THY spirit, that went far away to Yama to Vivasvān's Son,
We cause to ...
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In the Gita, the Lord said the soul does nothing. Then who does?
Krishna says in Gita that all the activities are done by the body and the soul does nothing.
I find this statement hard to believe. We all know that without the soul, the body is nothing but a corpse....
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How many rebirths does a soul go through?
I heard that an Atma (soul) will take 7 births on the earth. Is it true?
If it is true, then seven janma-s apply only for humans or animals or combinations of them?
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Do different forms of life have different value?
In an answer I recently read:
Do you not think the karma of killing a small insect is less than the karma of contributing to the death of a human?
I do not know. Life is life, correct? Is it ...
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How can we identify a self realized person?
What are the symptoms of a self realized person? How can I know whether I realized self or not?
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Which schools prior to the Gautam Buddha gave the finite size of the atma (आत्मा )?
Gautam Buddha is said to talk about Self in his teachings later during third turning of wheel (or call it whatever). He said about the self like this which is Advaitic & in agreement with both ...
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What is MANN and whom we say I (main). [duplicate]
i want to know what is mann. often we say mann nahi kar raha. either we say i don't want to do this. is I(main) and Mann are same.
