II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

एके हाती दंतु I जो स्वभावतां खंडितु I तो बौद्धमतसंकेतु I वार्तिकांचा II

"The broken tusk of Lord Ganesh symbolizes the refutation of the Buddhist commentary of Anatmawad."

II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

Anatmavada is a central Buddhist doctrine preached by Gautam Buddha that states there is no permanent soul or essence in any phenomenon.
First, it is important to understand what 'Anatma' actually says. It does not claim that there are no human beings or that the person who delivers your mail is really a robot or a ghost. Rather, 'Anatma' is a denial of ordinary claims about human identity.
According to Buddhist doctrine Anatmawad, this idea of the essentially existing self is mistaken. There is no essence of what people often take to be the self. Rather, the self is just the collection of constantly changing features, like the physical parts of your body and the sensations and perceptions that make up your mental life. There is nothing else about us that persists through these changes: all we are is a series of changes.

By Hindu Scriptures, self has some sort of essence. The essence of something is its core, defining characteristic without which the thing could not exist. A square essentially has four sides: if a square loses or gains any sides, there is no longer any square.
If our self has an essence, then this essence is what makes us us. If you lose your essence, there is no longer any you. But as long as your essence exists, you exist.

II श्रीसद्गुरूचरणार्पणमस्तु II