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'''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]]<ref>[[I]] and [[ego]] are not yet clearly differentiated in Indian philosophy.</ref>, [[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 {{Lectures|053}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Bhagavad Gita und die Paulusbriefe'', [[GA 142]] (1982), ISBN 3-7274-1420-0 {{Lectures|142}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden, Band I: 1904 – 1909'', [[GA 266/1]] (1995), ISBN 3-7274-2661-6 {{Lectures|266a}}

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