Our Many Selves

Atman-Self-Spirit

There is no distinction between the Self and the spirit. The psychic is the soul that develops in the evolution—the spirit is the Self that is not affected by the evolution, it is above it—only it is covered or concealed by the activity of mind, vital and body. The removal of this covering is the release of the spirit—and it is removed when there is a full and wide spiritual silence.

Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being

When one becomes aware of the Self calm, silent, wide, universal, it is no longer covered over by the ignorance; when one identifies with the Self and not with the mind, life and body and their movements or with the small ego, that is the release of the Self.

Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga - III: Experiences of the Self, the One and the Infinite

The Atma is the Self or Spirit that remains above, pure and stainless, unaffected by the stains of life, by desire and ego and ignorance. It is realised as the true being of the individual, but also more widely as the same being in all and as the Self of the cosmos; it has also a self-existence above the individual and cosmos and it is then called the Paramatma, the supreme Divine Being.

Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being

The Divine is more than the Atman. It is Nature also, it contains everything in Itself.

Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga - I: The Divine and Its Aspects