Chapter 3The Psychic and Spiritual Realisations · Three Realisations for the Soul

When one speaks of the Divine spark, one is thinking of the soul 1 The letter under this heading is Sri Aurobindo’s reply to the question, “What are the fundamental realisations in the Yoga?” — Ed.

as a portion of the Divine which has descended from above into the manifestation rather than of something which has separated itself from the cosmos. It is the nature that has formed itself out of the cosmic forces — mind out of cosmic mind, life out of cosmic life, body out of cosmic matter.

For the soul there are three realisations — (1) the realisation of the psychic being and consciousness as the divine element in the evolution, (2) the realisation of the cosmic Self which is one in all, (3) the realisation of the supreme Divine from which both individual and cosmos have come and of the individual being (Jivatma) as an eternal portion of the Divine.