1 Chaitanya means consciousness, while soul is an english word which could mean anything depending on the context. Sometimes soul is used to refer to subtle body. Sometimes soul denotes the jiva. Sometimes Soul refers to the Highest Brahman. Both of you have asked many questions on the Nature Of Atma (Soul). Firstly, Atma (Soul) is a spark from the Supreme Lord Krishna who is the Paramatma, and it has no feeling for itself, but, it makes the senses to feel something. Atma (Soul) can be perfectly compared to electricity. What is a soul? What is the relation between Atma (soul) and Paramatma (Supersoul) ? How to get liberation from material sufferings? There are many names of God in Hindu Dharma: Brahman, Isvara, Paramatman, Supreme Self, Bhagavan, Parabrahman, Shiva, Vishnu, Yaksha, etc. The soul, on the other hand, is known as Atman or self or individual self. The supreme self and the self are two eternal entities of creation. Both are enjoyers. But one is the supreme lord of the macrocosm, The short answer to your question is - There is not much difference between Soul (Atman) and Kundalini. They are just the different names or perspectives of the same principal. To be more specific, Kundalini is a major part, but not complete, of awareness or the Atman (Sanskrit) that we call as Soul (English). Jainism believes that souls (atmas) are distinguishable by their form as well as size and possess materiality. Some souls are extremely minute and may live in clusters while some, which reside in large animals such as elephants are much larger. Vedic Tribe Views: 6,494 Ātman is a Sanskrit word that means 'self'. In Hindu philosophy, especially in the Vedanta school of Hinduism, Ātman is the first principle, the true self of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the essence of an individual. Purusha is more narrowly focused on the distinction between the observer and the observed, while Atman is more broadly focused on the identity between the individual self and ultimate reality. However, both concepts ultimately point towards the same realization of liberation and recognizing the ultimate truth. atman, (Sanskrit: "self," "breath") one of the most basic concepts in Hinduism, the universal self, identical with the eternal core of the personality that after death either transmigrates to a new life or attains release from the bonds of existence.While in the early Vedas it occurred mostly as a reflexive pronoun meaning "oneself," in the later Upanishads (speculative XOFN.