The tip of his heart gets illumined and, being illumined, the atman departs through the eye or the head or some other part of the body. |
Whether they call it soul, spirit, atman or Buddha nature, all the major religions say that men and women have the same essential nature. |
Whether they call it soul, spirit, atman or buddhanature, all the major religions say that men and women have the same essential nature. |
Mostly straightforwardly, the expression atman is Brahman unequivocally identifies essential self with cosmos, ultimately not two things but one. |
Beyond the senses is the mind, beyond the mind, pure intellect, beyond the intellect, the great atman, beyond the great atman, the Unmanifest. |
The convictions that samsara is nirvana and that atman is Brahman are two distinctive religious conclusions born of such insight. |