The Tree of Jivan and Atman appears in the Vedic mythology predating Hinduism, as a metaphysical metaphor concerning the soul. The adjective Vedic may refer to The Vedas, the oldest preserved Indo-Aryan texts. ... This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ...

The Rig Veda samhita 1.164.20-22, Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1, and Svetasvatara Upanisad 3.20, 4.6-7, speak of two birds, one eating fruit, and one merely watching, perched on the branch of a tree which signifies the body. The Rig Veda ऋग्वेद (Sanskrit ṛc praise + veda knowledge) is the earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas. ... The Samhita (Sanskrit: joined or collected) is the basic text of each of the Vedas, comprising collections of hymns and ritual texts. ... The Upanishads (उपनिषद्, Upaniá¹£ad) are part of the Hindu Shruti scriptures which primarily discuss meditation and philosophy and are seen as religious instructions by most schools of Hinduism. ... With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. ...

The first bird represents a Jiva, or individual self, or soul. She has a female nature, being a sakti, an energy of God. When the jiva becomes distracted by the fruits (signifying sensual pleasure), she momentarily forgets her lord and lover and tries to enjoy the fruit independently of him. This separating forgetfulness is her maha-maya, or enthrallment, spiritual death, and constitutes the fall of the jiva into the saha world of material birth, death, disease and old age. In Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva is the immortal essence of a living being, subject to maya. ... The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. ... Female symbol Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces egg cells. ... God is the Supreme Being believed to exist in monotheistic religions as the creator of the Universe. ... The word Maya or maya can refer to: The Maya – a Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America the modern Maya people the pre-Columbian Maya civilization the Maya language Maya – a concept in Hindu/Vedic philosophy a state of misperception of reality the inherent force of... In Christian theology, Spiritual Death, sometimes also referred to as the Second Death, is defined as a spiritual separation from God, usually brought on by sin. ... Birth is the process in animals by which an offspring is expelled from the body of its mother. ... Death is the cessation of physical life in a living organism or the state of the organism after that event. ... A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person. ... A British pensioner, 2005 Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ...

The second bird is Atman, or Paramatman, an aspect of God who accompanies every living being in the heart while she remains in the material world. He is the support of all beings and is beyond sensual pleasure. This is a disambiguation page for the term atman (or atma). ... In Hindu theology, Paramatman is Absolute Atman or Supreme Soul. ... God is the Supreme Being believed to exist in monotheistic religions as the creator of the Universe. ...

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In Fundamentalist Christianity, Jiva, Atman, and the tree, have inevitably become connected with Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. In such connections, Jiva and Eve are identified due the similar translations of their name - both mean roughly alive. Conversely Adam is associated with Atman as the names sound similar. Fundamentalists thus identify the metaphor as a corruption of a biblical account, despite Atman never being able to have sensual pleasure, and thus permanently unable to fall. This article concerns the self-labelled Fundamentalist Movement in Protestant Christianity. ... According to the Book of Genesis in the Christian Bible and Judaisms Torah, and to Islams Quran, Adam was the first man created by God. ... In the Bibles Book of Genesis, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden from which God forbade Adam and Eve to eat. ...

References

• VedaVid.org - 'Rg Veda 1.164' (transliterated Sanskrit)
• Sacred-Texts.com - 'Hymn CLXIV: Visvedevas' (Rg Veda 1.164, English translation)