Adhyatmika

Adhyatmika

आध्यात्मिक, ādhyātmika

• Something connected with Atman, with its eternal true nature; spiritual, sacred.
  

The term can be used, for example, to denote the highest spiritual guidelines, spiritual knowledge (adhyatmika-vidya), spiritual experience (adhyatmika-anubhava).

• One of the three categories of mundane suffering (duhkha). According to “Vishnu-Purana” (6.5.1-6), adhyatmika is defined as suffering associated with the body and psyche of a human, that is, coming from within, inherent and natural for jiva.
  

Sufferings of the body include various pains, diseases of the body, ailments, inflammations: headache, fever, cataracts, dysentery, and so on.

Psychic or mental suffering are love, anger, fear, hatred, greed, daze, despair, sadness, anger, contempt, jealousy, envy, and many other passions that arise in the mind.

The other two categories of suffering are adhibhautika and adhidaivika.