Apasmara
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Apasmara is a diminutive man who represents spiritual ignorance and ahamkara in Hindu mythology. He is also known as Muyalaka or Muyalakan.
Apasmara, clutching a cobra and trampled beneath the foot of Nataraja (Shiva as lord of dance).
Nataraja dancing the cosmic dance of creation, destruction and moksha (ultimate liberation) upon the prone body of Apasmara, the demon of avidya (ignorance or lack of spiritual insight) – Chola bronze, Musée Guimet.
Jiva
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Jiva, also referred as Jivātman, is a living being or any entity imbued with a life force in Hinduism and Jainism. The word itself originates from the Sanskrit verb-root jīv, which translates as 'to b
Apasmara
…iconography clutching a cobra, which symbolizes (ahamkara) in Shaivite tradition. Ahamkara, literally means the "I-maker", and is the faculty by which jivas (souls) identify with the physical body rather than their higher self. The Shiva Purana describes ahamkara as originating from Prakriti (nature…
Classifications of Jivas (souls) from The Sacred Book of the Jainas