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The word “atma” or “atman” means "soul” or “breath.” This individual soul continues through each lifetime and is part of Atman, the universal spirit flowing through all living things. In Buddhism the contrast to atman is reliance on the ego (I, me, mine), which comes from ignorance, the cause of all misery and the foundation of samsara or delusion.
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