Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1935

Fragment ID: 17499

1935

What is exactly the difference between an aspect of the Divine known as the self and a portion of the Divine called the soul?

The self feels always its unity with the Divine and is always the same. The soul is a portion of the Divine that comes down into the evolution and evolves a psychic being more and more developed through experiences of successive lives until it is ready for the divine realisation here.