The Self is being, not a being. By Self is meant the conscious essential existence, one in all.


The Self is essentially universal; the individualised self is only the universal experienced from or in an individual centre. If what you have realised is not felt to be one in all, then it is not the Atman; it is the central being not yet revealing its universal aspect as Atman.



The self is felt either as universal, one in all, or as universalised individual the same in essence as others, extended everywhere from each being but centred here. Of course centre is a way of speaking, because no physical centre is usually felt – only all the actions take place around the individual.



page 1071-1072, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL