The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 164 of 254

Ātman as a depersonalised self

Ātman is a kind of depersonalised self, lacking individual personality and identity. So if ātman succeeds in becoming fully reintegrated with brahman, personhood is destroyed.

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