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The Jivatma
The phrase “central being” in our Yoga is usually applied to
the portion of the Divine in us which supports all the rest and
survives through death and birth. This central being has two
forms — above, it is the Jivatman, our true being, of which
we become aware when the higher self-knowledge comes, —
below, it is the psychic being which stands behind mind, body
and life.
The Jivatman is above the manifestation in life and presides
over it; the psychic being stands behind the manifestation in
life and supports it.
CWSA 28: 60-61

Chaitya purusha
The soul and the psychic being are practically the same,
except that even in things which have not developed a psychic
being, there is still a spark of the Divine which can be called
the soul. The psychic being is called in Sanskrit the Purusha in
the heart or the Chaitya Purusha. (The psychic being is the soul
developing in the evolution.)
CWSA 28: 82

Antaratma
The antarDtman is the soul, the portion of the Divine that
is at the inmost basis of the evolving individual and supports
the mind and life and body which are the instrumental parts of
nature through which it tries to grow from the material Incon-
science towards the divine Light and Immortality which are its
proper being. The limitations of its instruments impose upon
it an acceptance of the lower movements and a compromise
between soul and nature which retard this movement even
while it gets its means of advance from that interchange. The

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