There is no proper English word for Atman. Religious people think every individual has a Soul, whereas in Spirituality or Adyathma they hold the Soul is One which is the cause of the universe.+

Atman is not induvidual Soul. Atman, which is present in the form of consciousness is the cause of the universe.

There is no proper English word for Atman. Religious people think every individual has a Soul, whereas in Spirituality or Adyathma they hold the Soul is One which is the cause of the universe.

Many souls' theory is based on the false self and false experience (world). When the whole universe is created out of single stuff is the Soul then whatever the universe contains is also consciousness. Thus, the Soul is one, and in ignorance, the diversity appears as reality.

There are no separate individual Souls. Individuals are many but the Soul is one.

Many Souls theory is a dualistic theory. All the dualistic theories are egocentric.

Egocentric theories are based on ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of experiencing the illusory world as a reality.

The Soul is not an individual because the Soul is present in the form of the consciousness is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Soul is the cause of the universe which contains the whole of humanity. Thus, limiting the Soul to an individual is erroneous.

Sage Sankara asks his opponents "How do you know there are separate individual Souls? Have you seen the Soul of a man? You can only say that you have seen different bodies. To say more is to misuse language. Therefore, I call you liars unless you give proof, which is impossible.

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Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Atman (Soul) is the Self. The ‘I’ is not Atman. There is a need to know ‘what is ‘I’ before indulging in the pursuit of truth. People, who hold the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’, are holding the dualistic illusion as a reality.

Dualist Gurus including and thinkers could not distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘formless witness.’ The 'I' was the witness. Their highest was the Jiva. One is so much attached to the 'I' that he does not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again one is unable to detach the ‘I’ from the Real witness.

The dualist object: - If everything else is false then the statement I am Brahman is itself false, but when one says nonduality is false; there must be the awareness, consciousness, behind the very statement.

You will also go, die. One has to rely upon that which is permanent. The Soul, the witness of the ‘I’ alone is permanent. Anything that one says is a witnessed (waking), but there is the Soul, the witness (consciousness) there before any statement could be made.

They mean the body by “I", but it is the Soul, the witness of the ‘I’. The Soul is the real “Self ". the orthodox Advaitin and dualists did not, or could not analyze further than ‘I’ on this point because they thought the ‘I’ without the body as the Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar