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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. This distinction has nothing to do with the distinction between the psychic and the vital; the vital being is not what is known as the Atma. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-psychic-being</ref>
As the Self or Atman is free and superior to birth and death, the experience of the Jivatman and its unity with the supreme or universal Self is sufficient to bring the sense of liberation; but for the transformation of the life and nature the full awareness and awakening of our psychic being also is indispensable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-jivatman-in-the-integral-yoga#p47</ref>
=== Jivatman/Central Being and the Psychic Being ===
When the one Divine manifests its ever inherent multiplicity, this essential Self or Atman becomes for that manifestation the Jivatman, the central being who presides from above over the evolution of its personalities and terrestrial lives here, but is itself an eternal portion of the Divine and prior to the terrestrial manifestation— ''parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā''.
In this lower manifestation, “aparā prakṛti”''aparā prakṛti'', this eternal portion of the Divine appears as the soul, a spark of the Divine Fire, supporting the individual evolution, supporting the mental, vital and physical being. The psychic being is the spark growing into a Fire, evolving with the growth of the consciousness. The psychic being is therefore evolutionary, not like the Jivatman, prior to the evolution. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-jivatman-in-the-integral-yoga#p8,p9,p10</ref>
The central being—the Jivatman which is not born nor evolves, but presides over the individual birth and evolution—puts forward a representative of himself on each plane of the consciousness. On the mental plane it is the true mental being, ''manomaya puruṣa'', on the vital plane the true vital being, ''prāṇamaya puruṣa'', on the physical plane the true physical being,