Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 1
Fragment ID: 9836
The central being is that which is not born, does not evolve, but presides over all the individual manifestation. The psychic is its projection here – for the psychic being is in the evolution and from within supports our whole evolution; it receives the essence of all experience and by that develops the personality Godward.
The Self is at once one in all and many – one in its essence, it manifests also as the individual self which may be described as in Nature an eternal portion of the Divine; in spirit a centre of the manifestation, individual but extending into universality and rising into transcendence.