Ahamkara

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Ahamkara (Sanskritअहंकार 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[1], 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.

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References

  1. I and ego are not yet clearly differentiated in Indian philosophy.