Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 1

Fragment ID: 9846

Caitya puruṣa means rather the Purusha in the cit, the fundamental (inner) consciousness.

Jiva is the fundamental, or as we call it, the central being. But the fundamental being is not combined of the mental, vital, psychic etc., these are only expressions of the Jivatman; the Jivatman itself is self-existent in the Divine; essential in its being, it cannot be regarded as a combination of things.