Atma
Atma (devanāgarī: आत्मन् ātma) o Ātmā, es una palabra Sanskrita que significa "yo". En la Filosofía Hindu, especialmente en la escuela Vedānta, se refiere al verdadero yo más allá del fenómeno.
En la literatura Theosófica, alude al séptimo principio en el hombre o el cosmos. Se dice que Atma es un rayo de lo Absoluto y, por consiguiente, no individual. Cada persona participa de este principio universal, que se manifiesta en él o ella como el "Yo Superior". Sin embargo, per se, atma es más allá de la conciencia o de cualquier otro atributo relativo. Su vehículo de expresión en el universo diferenciado es el sexto principio, o Buddhi.
Principio Universal
Ātma,el séptimo principio, es descrito frecuentemente por H. P. Blavatsky como un rayo de lo Absoluto:
The seventh [principle is] the synthesis of the six, and not a principle but a ray of the Absolute ALL—in strict truth.[1]
This being the case, atman is essentially beyond any description:
Ātma is nothing; it is all absolute, and it cannot be said that it is this, that or the other. . . It is simply that in which we are.[2]
Since atman is omnipresent, it cannot be regarded as a human principle, but rather as a universal one:
Spirit (in the sense of the Absolute, and therefore, indivisible ALL), or Atma. As this can neither be located nor limited in philosophy, being simply that which IS in Eternity, and which cannot be absent from even the tiniest geometrical or mathematical point of the universe of matter or substance, it ought not to be called, in truth, a “human” principle at all.[3]
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 232, fn.
- ↑ Michael Gomes (transcriber), The Secret Doctrine Commentaries (The Hague: I.S.I.S. foundation, 2010), 609.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy, (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 119.