जीवात्मा
Jivatma
The individual soul embodied in matter
📜Understanding Jivatma
Jivatma means "individual soul" or "living self" - the eternal conscious being that takes on various bodies across lifetimes. The Bhagavad Gita's second chapter is devoted to establishing the jivatma's true nature.
🕉️Related Shlokas(15)
Gita 2.13
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 2
Just as the soul passes through childhood, youth, and old age in this body, so too it passes into another body at death—the wise are not bewildered by this.
Gita 3.40
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 3
Desire occupies the senses, mind, and intellect like an enemy hiding in your own fortress—from these strongholds, it veils your wisdom and makes you a stranger to yourself.
Gita 7.5
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 7
Matter is My body, but consciousness is My soul—and it is consciousness that makes the entire universe come alive.
📖Related Stories(15)
Rantideva's Compassion
→Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 9, Chapter 21
King Rantideva fasted 48 days. When food arrived, successive guests came - a brahmana, laborer, man with dogs, and outcaste. Seeing Krishna in all beings, he gave away everything including his last drop of water. The guests revealed themselves as Brahma, Shiva, and other demigods.
Sanatkumara Teaching Narada
→Chandogya Upanishad, Chapter 7
Despite mastering all sciences, sage Narada lacks inner peace. Sanatkumara guides him through 15 progressive stages - from Name through Speech, Mind, to Space and beyond - culminating in Bhuma (the Infinite). Happiness exists only in the Infinite, not in finite things.
💬Related Dialogues(2)
You Are That
→Ribhu & Nidagha
Tat Tvam Asi (You Are That) reveals that the individual self and the universal Self are identical. The apparent limitation is due to identification with body and mind, but the pure awareness that witnesses both is unlimited Brahman itself. This is not a goal to achieve but a fact to recognize.
The Non-Dual Reality
→Nidagha & Ribhu
The trinity of individual soul, world, and God is not three realities in relationship but one Brahman appearing as the drama of three.