Ahamkara

Ahamkara (Sanskrit: अहंकार ahaṃkāra, literally: "I-maker", from ahaṃ "I, ego" and kāra "making", from the root kṛ "doing", from which also "karma" is derived) is the Indian theosophical common name for the I or ego, self-consciousness or personality and the cause of the subject-object split, originating from Sankhya philosophy. Ahamkara, as was already taught in medieval Tantrism, is related to the two-petalled brow chakra.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Ursprung und Ziel des Menschen, GA 53 (1981), ISBN 3-7274-0532-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Bhagavad Gita und die Paulusbriefe, GA 142 (1982), ISBN 3-7274-1420-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden, Band I: 1904 – 1909, GA 266/1 (1995), ISBN 3-7274-2661-6 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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