- Jiva (Sanskrit: जीव, IAST: jīva), also
referred as
Jivātman, is a
living being or any
entity imbued with a life
force in
Hinduism and Jainism. The word...
- a
Hindu tradition of
textual exegesis and
philosophy that
states that
jivatman, the
individual experiencing self, is
ultimately pure
awareness mistakenly...
-
metaphysical ultimate reality; the controller. Chit,
representing the
Jivātman,
which is the sentient,
individual soul; the enjoyer. Achit,
which is the...
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relations between the three.
Brahman or Īśvara: the
ultimate reality Ātman or
Jivātman: the
individual soul, self
Prakriti or Jagat: the
empirical world, ever-changing...
- to God (bhakti). The Gita
posits the
existence of an
individual self (
jivatman) and the
higher Godself (Krishna, Atman/Brahman) in
every being; the Krishna–Arjuna...
- than a sub-school of Vedānta,
which teaches that the
individual self (
jīvātman) is both
different and not
different from the
ultimate reality known as...
- Shankara's
writings is the
liberating knowledge of the true
identity of
jivatman (individual self) as Ātman-Brahman,
taking the
Upanishads as an independent...
-
universal Self (paramātman)
under limitations as many
individual Selfs (
jīvātman).
There is no
consensus among schools of
Hinduism on the
definition of...
- "abstract monism," of Adi Shankara, "which
holds the
individual Self (
Jīvātman) and
supream Self (Paramātmā) to be one,"
while "an
earlier hymn to Nataraja...
- The
Dvaita Vedanta school believes that God and the
individual souls (
jīvātman)
exist as
independent realities, and
these are distinct,
being said that...
