
Overcoming Individualism | Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Self Is Not That of the Soul
The self is the idea of a perspective consciousness, something that cannot be replicable as to its cus and perspective. The soul carries with it a combination of immateriality and also a set of specific features that makes that person that that soul,. So ramprisads soul is ramprisa. Whereis this self? The sanscrit word, is atman. This perspective is not that of rampisad. As i said, the contingent features that make this human being this human being do not affect the point of consciousness from which all other perspectives are generated. It doesn't make that rapsad. That perspective is independent of the contingent features. Seen that way, everybody is an
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