Atman was the Hindu core concept or thesis against which the Lord Buddha argued with the concept that all human beings were anata or anatman or non-permanent self which was one of the three elements of life, anicca, dukkha and anata. Anata was the impermanency of the self and ever changing which eventually would become emptiness or ultimately nothingness. This was a frontal attack on the concept of the Soul and the Self as being permanent. Anata or anatman was an anti-thesis of the thesis of Atman. Viewed in this context human beings and the human species are meaningless consisting of emptiness or nothingness. The corollary would be that life and living is just emptiness or nothingness. There is thus no significant meaning for existence whatsoever. Life is therefore not worth continuing because ultimately living has no substance and carries no significant meaning and purpose. If this is the case, one will have to argue, human beings are just temporary existence of a physical self where the mind dwells while the Soul or the Self are also just nothingness. Atman is thus the concept or thesis that is challenged by anata or anatman, the anti-thesis.