What is Athma (soul)?

Question

Spiritual

Answer 1

Athma is a respiratory illneff - athmatics can have an athma attack at any moment and must cary a nebulither to give them relief. more and more people are getting athma these days.

Answer 2

atma is the body or mind or soul.

Sanskrit is "the most dynamic language" It is not like academic study. It has to be understood under the guidance of a God realized person. A scholar of Sanskrit is not good enough. One has to be God realized. You have to search for such a person. If you are sincere you will find. We cannot expect that someone will come to me.

So atma appears in many sanskrit verses. But to understand in the right meaning we require a God realized person not a Sanskrit scholar.

When Atma is referred as soul in the scripture, its activity is described. When Atma is referred as body or mind the context is different. Therefore to understand athma one need to approach a bonafide representitative of God not a scholar. A bonafide representative does not talk by experience, he speaks by self-realization. Realized knowledge is perfect not experienced knowledge. Both are knowledge but Realized knowledge is Superior.

A Self-realized is intelligent not a pretender under the guise of some dress, he is not a silent pretender. His only business is to speak the science of atma.

Answer 3

Atma

Atma is a derivation of the sanskrit word "atman" and means individual soul. In the Hindu philosophical school of Advaita Vedanta, as well as in the teaching of Meher Baba, the atma (or soul) is really one with and identical with Paramatma (the Over-soul). What misleads the atma into considering itself discrete and separate from the Over-soul is Maya. Maya is the principle of ignorance which produces the illusion of plurality and incites the feeling of separateness in the atma.

Meher Baba writes that "Atman or the soul is in reality identical with Paramatman or the Oversoul, which is One, Infinite and Eternal. The soul is, in fact, beyond the gross, subtle and mental worlds, but experiences itself as being limited owing to its identification with the Sharira or gross body, Prana or the subtle body (which is the vehicle of desires and vital forces), and Manas or the mental body (which is the seat of the mind). The soul in its transcendental state is One—Formless, Eternal and Infinite—and yet identifies itself with the phenomenal world of forms, which are many and finite and destructible. This is Maya or the cosmic illusion. The soul and its illusion." (Meher Baba, Discourses)

Answer 4

Do you mean atman?
It's the individual part of brahman that is the overall soul. When you die your atman is enfolded back in the whole until u r born again.

Answer 5

Hindu beliefs through their song worship

Answer 6

We Hindu people belive in it