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Atman (Soul)
Art & Science of Meditation
against its having a separate existence from the physical body. In Aristotle's view, the primary activity of a living thing constitutes its soul; for example, the soul of an eye, if it were an independent organism, would be seeing (its purpose or final cause). For Aristotle, the soul is the form of a living creature.
Get Liberated from the material world by VN Mittal (The speaking Tree, The Times of India)
"Atman or Soul is inherently sat-chit-ananda since it is a part of Paramatman or the Divine Self. Yet, we fail to experience it as the state of eternal bliss proves elusive. In Vedanta, Brahman is often described by the term sat-chitananda, a composite word consisting of three words sat, chit, and ananda. 'Sat' is the ever-existent or absolute Truth; "chit' is awareness or pure consciousness and 'ananda' is absolute bliss --infinite and boundless, free of all stress, tension, conflict and disturbances. In fact, these three denote the three characteristics of Atman that complement each other.
These three characteristics are intrinsically interwoven with each other. Truth is consciousness and bliss' and bliss is 'consciousness and truth? The moment you experience truth, you also tend to experience a tremendous explosion
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