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at•man
Pronunciation: (ät'mun), [key]—
n. Hinduism.
1. the principle of life.
2. the individual self, known after enlightenment to be identical with Brahman.
3. (
cap.) the World Soul, from which all individual souls derive, and to which they return as the supreme goal of existence.
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