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In Hindu theology, Paramatman is Absolute Atman or Supreme Soul. It is a concept used in the Vedanta and Yoga mystical philosophies of India. This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ... (Redirected from ) This is a disambiguation page for the term atman (or atma). ... Veda means knowledge and anta the end, so the literal meaning is the end of knowledge or the ultimate knowledge. ... Hatha Yoga posture Yoga is a form of mysticism that developed on the Indian subcontinent in the Hindu cultural context. ...


Also known as the divine self or the one object, Paramatman is both part of an individual and part of the macrocosm. From a western Judaeo-Christian view point, it may be seen as a communal soul, or collective consciousness. Some believe Paramatman to be synonym for Brahman. Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of reality. ... Western can refer to: A Western blot is a method in molecular biology to detect a certain protein in a sample by using antibody specific to that protein. ... Judeo-Christian tradition (also spelled Judaeo-Christian) is the body of concepts and values held in common by Christianity and Judaism. ... The soul according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. ... The French social theorist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) used the term collective consciousness in his The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Suicide (1897), and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). ... Here the underlined vowels carry the Vedic Sanskrit udātta pitch accent. ...


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Paramatman is neither knowledge nor ignorance, Paramatman is your spontaneous and natural Self, devoid of all concepts of knowledge, as well as ignorance.


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In His Paramatma feature, the Lord permeates the entire cosmos.
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