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The Soul and the Psychic Being

The soul is something of the Divine that descends into the evolu-
tion as a divine Principle within it to support the evolution of the
individual out of the Ignorance into the Light.
It develops in the course of the evolution a psychic individual
or 'soul individuality' which grows from life to life, using the evolv-
ing mind, vital and body as its instruments.
CWSA 28: 118 Sri Aurobindo

Aspiration is almost always an expression of the psychic
being — the part of us that's organised around the divine center,
the small divine flame deep within human beings. You see, this
divine flame exists inside each human being, and little by lit-
tle, through all the incarnations and karma and so on, a being
takes shape around it, which Théon called the "psychic being."
And when the psychic being reaches its full development, it
becomes a kind of bodily or at any rate individual raiment of
the soul. The soul is a portion of the Supreme — the jiva is the
Supreme in individual form. And since there is only one Supreme,
there is only one jiva, but with millions of individual forms. This
jiva begins as a divine spark — immutable, eternal and infinite
too (infinite in possibility rather than dimension). And through
all the incarnations, whatever has received and responded to
the divine Influence progressively crystallizes around the jiva,
which becomes more and more conscious as well as more and
more organised. Ultimately it becomes a completely conscious
individual being, master of itself and moved exclusively by
the divine Will. That is to say, an individual expression of the
Supreme. This is what we call the "psychic being."

The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, July 25, 1962

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