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(6) Below navel—lower vital.
(7) Muladhara—physical.
All these centres are in the middle of the body; they are supposed to be attached to the spinal cord; but in fact all these things are in the subtle body, ''sūkṣma deha'', though one has the feeling of their activities as if in the physical body when the consciousness is awake.
'''Chakras'''
The thousand-petalled (head) lotus—Chakra or centre of the higher will and knowledge
The lotus at the end of the spine (Muladhara)—Physical consciousness
In the process of our Yoga the centres have each a fixed psychological use and general function which base all their special powers and functionings. The ''mūlādhāra'' governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre—svādhiṣṭhāna—governs centre—''svādhiṣṭhāna''—governs the lower vital; the navel centre—nābhipadma centre—''nābhipadma'' or maṇipūra—governs ''maṇipūra''—governs the larger vital; the heart centre—''hṛtpadma'' or ''anāhata''—governs the emotional being; the throat centre—''viśuddha''—governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eyebrows—''ājñācakra''—governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation; the thousand-petalled lotus—sahasradala—above commands the higher thinking mind, houses the still higher illumined mind and at its highest opens to the intuition through which or else by an overflooding directness the overmind can have with the rest communication or an immediate contact.
I never heard of two lotuses in the heart centre; but it is the seat of two powers, in front the higher vital or emotional being, behind and concealed the soul or psychic being.
The three lines of education—physical, vital and mental—deal with that and could be defined as the means of building up the personality, raising the individual out of the amorphous subconscious mass and making him a well-defined self-conscious entity. With psychic education we come to the problem of the true motive of existence, the purpose of life on earth, the discovery to which this life must lead and the result of that discovery: the consecration of the individual to his eternal principle. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/psychic-education-and-spiritual-education</ref>
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'''Personality Traits of a Successful Teacher'''
1) Complete self-control not only to the extent of not showing any anger, but remaining absolutely quiet and undisturbed under all circumstances.
2) In the matter of self-confidence, must also have a sense of the relativity of his importance.
Above all, must have the knowledge that the teacher himself must always progress if he wants his students to progress, must not remain satisfied either with what he is or with what he knows.
3) Must not have any sense of essential superiority over his students nor preference or attachment whatsoever for one or another.
4) Must know that all are equal spiritually and instead of mere tolerance must have a global comprehension or understanding.
5) “The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material.” <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/teachers#p7,p8,p9,p10,p11,p12,p13</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p20</ref>
==Helpful Practicesto Mould Ourselves into the Divine Personality==
There is a personality on his surface that chooses and wills, submits and struggles, tries to make good in Nature or prevail over Nature, but this personality is itself a construction of Nature and so dominated, driven, determined by her that it cannot be free. It is a formation or expression of the Self in her,—it is a self of Nature rather than a self of Self, his natural and processive, not his spiritual and permanent being, a temporary constructed personality, not the true immortal Person. It is that Person that he must become. He must succeed in being inwardly quiescent, detach himself as the observer from the outer active personality and learn the play of the cosmic forces in him by standing back from all blinding absorption in its turns and movements. Thus calm, detached, a student of himself and a witness of his nature, he realises that he is the individual soul who observes the works of Nature, accepts tranquilly her results and sanctions or withholds his sanction from the impulse to her acts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-supreme-will#p14</ref>