#'''self''' (with a lower case "s") at the bodily level: A person who wills, acts and feels, the Jīva (empirical self) in Advaita. Jiva is embodied consciousness, whereas jiva-sākṣin (as in ''self'') is the witnessing ''consciousness''. The term “self” may be used in a general nonspecific sense to refer to self at all its levels, where a distinction is not warranted. | #'''self''' (with a lower case "s") at the bodily level: A person who wills, acts and feels, the Jīva (empirical self) in Advaita. Jiva is embodied consciousness, whereas jiva-sākṣin (as in ''self'') is the witnessing ''consciousness''. The term “self” may be used in a general nonspecific sense to refer to self at all its levels, where a distinction is not warranted. |