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Read more about Personality from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

What is Personality?

Personality, like consciousness, life, soul, is not a brief-lived stranger in an impersonal Eternity, but contains the very meaning of existence. ^[1]

Personality is regarded as a fixed structure of recognizable qualities expressing a power of being. Personality as a flux of self-expressive or sensitive and responsive being, character as a formed fixity of Nature's structure. But flux of nature and fixity of nature are two aspects of being neither of which, nor indeed both together, can be a definition of personality. ^[2]

The Person puts forward the personality as his role, character, persona, in the present act of his long drama of manifested existence. ^[3]

Characteristics of Human Personalities

The human individual is a very complex being composed of innumerable elements, each one of which is an independent entity and has almost a personality. The most contradictory elements are housed together. If there is a particular quality or capacity present, the very opposite of it, annulling it, as it were, will also be found along with it and embracing it. ^[4]

The Triple Status of Personalities in Human

The basic three being evidently the triple status or world of Body, Life and Mind. ^[5]

Mental Being

The mental man tends to subordinate to his mental self-expression, mental aims, mental interests or to a mental idea or ideal the rest of his being. Man is a mental being and the mind is the leader of his life and body. ^[6]

Vital Being

The vital self, the being of life, who dominates and rules the mind, the will, the action; then is created the vital man, concerned with self-affirmation, self aggrandisement, life-enlargement, satisfaction of ambition and passion and impulse and desire, the claims of his ego, domination, power, excitement, battle and struggle, inner and outer adventure. ^[7]

Physical Being

In some human beings it is the physical Purusha, the being of body, who dominates the mind, will and action; there is then created the physical man mainly occupied with his corporeal life and habitual needs, impulses, life habits, mind habits, body habits, looking very little or not at all beyond that, subordinating and restricting all his other tendencies and possibilities to that narrow formation. ^[8]

What Does Harmonious Personality Mean?

A truly harmonious personality implies a conscious arrangement of the inner individualities. But to succeed in this one must consciously take the psychic being as the centre and arrange, harmonise the various individualities around it. True harmony, inner organisation is the result of such a persistent effort. ^[9]

World-Personality

It is the individual personality which is transformed into the world-personality. Instead of having the sense of the individual, this little person amidst all the others, becomes aware of the world-individuality, the world-personality, and naturally becomes divine. It is a transformation. It is one thing being transformed into the other. ^[10]

Divine Personality

When the individual has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal. ^[11]

The Psychic Being

The inmost being, the true personality, the central consciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is a very tiny spark of light lying in normal people far behind the life-experiences. In grown-up souls this psychic consciousness has an increased light—increased in intensity, volume and richness. ^[12]

When the psychic being holds this central position in the personality, everything becomes very easy. ^[13]

The psychic being at the time of death chooses what it will work out in the next birth and determines the character and conditions of the new personality. ^[14]

Importance of Attaining to the Divine Personality

For, in the Divine you do not really lose your individuality: you only give up your egoism and become the true individual, the divine personality which is not temporary like the construction of the physical consciousness which is usually taken for your self. One touch of the divine consciousness and you see immediately that there is no loss in it. On the contrary, you acquire a true individual permanence which can survive a hundred deaths of the body and all the vicissitudes of the vital-mental evolution. Without this transfiguring touch, you always go about in fear; with it, you gradually develop the power to make even your physical being plastic without losing its individuality. ^[15]

How to Develop a Divine Personality?

When one is able to live within, aware of one's inner being, identified with it and to regard the rest as not oneself, as a creation of ignorant Nature from which one has separated oneself and which has to disappear and, secondly, when by opening oneself constantly to the Divine Light and Force and steadily pushes out the movements of the ignorance and substitutes even in the lower vital and physical being the movements of the inner and higher nature. ^[16]

Surrender is looked upon as an abdication of the personality; but that is a grievous error. For the individual is meant to manifest one aspect of the Divine Consciousness, and the expression of its characteristic nature is what creates his personality; then, by taking the right attitude towards the Divine, this personality is purified of all the influences of the lower nature which diminish and distort it and it becomes more strongly personal, more itself, more complete. ^[17]

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Read more about Personality from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

References

[1] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-april-1956#p11

[2] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p30

[3] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p30

[4] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/12-november-1952#p1

[5] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/12-november-1952#p2

[6] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p11

[7] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p10

[8] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p10

[9] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/30-december-1950#p14

[10] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/5-december-1956#p22

[11] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-supreme-will#p2

[12] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/12-november-1952#p4

[13] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/14-march-1935#p3

[14] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/rebirth#p2

[15] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-the-divine-will-in-the-world#p4

[16] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-human-nature#p18

[17] ttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/4-august-1929#p5

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 <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-april-1956#p11</ref>
-Personality is regarded as a fixed structure of recognizable qualities expressing a power of being; but another idea distinguishes personality and character, personality as a flux of self-expressive or sensitive and responsive being, character as a formed fixity of Nature's structure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p30</ref>
+Personality is regarded as a fixed structure of recognizable qualities expressing a power of being. Personality as a flux of self-expressive or sensitive and responsive being, character as a formed fixity of Nature's structure. But flux of nature and fixity of nature are two aspects of being neither of which, nor indeed both together, can be a definition of personality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p30</ref>
 The Person puts forward the personality as his role, character, persona, in the
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 The human individual is a very complex being composed of innumerable elements, each one of which is an independent entity and has almost a personality. The most contradictory elements are housed together. If there is a particular quality or capacity present, the very opposite of it, annulling it, as it were, will also be found along with it and embracing it.  <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/12-november-1952#p1</ref>
-==Being a World-Personality==
-It is the individual personality which is transformed into the world-personality. Instead of having the sense of the individual, this little person amidst all the others, becomes aware of the world-individuality, the world-personality, and naturally becomes divine. It is a transformation. It is one thing being transformed into the other. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/5-december-1956#p22</ref>
+==The Triple Status of Personalities in Human==
+The basic three being evidently the triple status or world of Body, Life and Mind.
+<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/12-november-1952#p2</ref>
+===Mental Being===
+The mental man tends to subordinate to his mental self-expression, mental aims, mental interests or to a mental idea or ideal the rest of his being. Man is a mental being and the mind is the leader of his life and body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p11</ref>
-==Individual Self and Personality==
+===Vital  Being===
-The Self, even the individual self, is different from our personality as it is different from our
+The vital self, the being of life, who dominates and rules the mind, the will, the action; then is created the vital man, concerned with self-affirmation, self aggrandisement, life-enlargement, satisfaction of ambition and passion and impulse and desire, the claims of his ego, domination, power, excitement, battle and struggle, inner and outer adventure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p10</ref>
-mental ego-sense. Our personality is never the same; it is a constant mutation and various
-combination. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-modes-of-the-self#p6</ref>
-==The Triple Status of Personalities in Human==
+===Physical  Being===
-The complete or integral man, some occultists say, possesses three hundred and sixty-five personalities. The Vedas speak of the three and thirty- three and thirty-three hundred and thirty-three thousand gods that may be housed in the human vehicle—the basic three being evidently the triple status or world of Body, Life and Mind.
+In some human beings it is the physical Purusha, the being of body, who dominates the mind, will and action; there is then created the physical man mainly occupied with his corporeal life and habitual needs, impulses, life habits, mind habits, body habits, looking very little or not at all beyond that, subordinating and restricting all his other tendencies and possibilities to that narrow formation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p10</ref>
-<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/12-november-1952#p2</ref>
-==What does Harmonious Personality mean?==
+==What Does Harmonious Personality Mean?==
 A truly harmonious personality implies a conscious arrangement of the inner individualities. But to succeed in this one must consciously take the psychic being as the centre and arrange, harmonise the various individualities around it. True harmony, inner organisation is the result of such a persistent effort.
 <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/30-december-1950#p14</ref>
-==What is Divine Personality?==
+==World-Personality==
-Transform the divided individual into the world-personality; let all thyself be the divine. This is thy goal.
+It is the individual personality which is transformed into the world-personality. Instead of having the sense of the individual, this little person amidst all the others, becomes aware of the world-individuality, the world-personality, and naturally becomes divine. It is a transformation. It is one thing being transformed into the other. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/5-december-1956#p22</ref>
-<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/5-december-1956#p5</ref>
-==Personalities in Different Parts of the Being ==
-You have many sides to your personality or rather many personalities in you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-adwaita-of-shankaracharya#p23</ref>
+==Divine Personality==
-Man does not live on a single plane but on many planes at the same time. There is a scale of gradation in human consciousness: the higher one rises in the scale the greater the number of elements or personalities that one possesses. Whether one lives mostly or mainly on the physical or vital or mental plane or on any particular section of these planes or on the planes above and beyond them, there will be, accordingly, differences in the constitution or psycho-physical make-up of the individual personality. The higher one stands, the richer the personality, because it lives not only on its own normal level but also on all the levels that are below it and which it has transcended. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/12-november-1952#p2</ref>
+When the individual has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal.
+<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-supreme-will#p2</ref>
-===In the Psychic Being===
+==The Psychic Being==
 The inmost being, the true personality, the central consciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is a very tiny spark of light lying in normal people far behind the life-experiences. In grown-up souls this psychic consciousness has an increased light—increased in intensity, volume and richness.
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 When the psychic being holds this central position in the personality, everything becomes very easy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/14-march-1935#p3</ref>
-The psychic being at the time of death chooses what it will work out in the next birth and
+The psychic being at the time of death chooses what it will work out in the next birth and determines the character and conditions of the new personality.
-determines the character and conditions of the new personality.
 <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/rebirth#p2</ref>
-=Why is the Path to Arrive at Divine Personality Different for All?=
+=Importance of Attaining to the Divine Personality=
-Everyone must follow his path in accordance with his own nature. For one who follows the path of action, it is much more difficult to feel that the human personality does not exist and that only the divine Force works. For one who follows the path of knowledge it is relatively very easy, it is something one discovers almost immediately. For one who follows the path of love it is elementary, since it is by giving himself that he progresses. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/10-october-1956#p14</ref>
+For, in the Divine you do not really lose your individuality: you only give up your egoism and become the true individual, the divine personality which is not temporary like the construction of the physical consciousness which is usually taken for your ''self''. One touch of the divine consciousness and you see immediately that there is no loss in it. On the contrary, you acquire a true individual permanence which can survive a hundred deaths of the body and all the vicissitudes of the vital-mental evolution. Without this transfiguring touch, you always go about in fear; with it, you gradually develop the power to make even your physical being plastic without losing its individuality. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-the-divine-will-in-the-world#p4</ref>
-=Why is Integrality of Personalities Important?=
+=How to Develop a Divine Personality?=
-Everybody is an amalgamation not of two but of many personalities. It is a part of the Yogic perfection in this Yoga to accord and transmute them so as to "integrate" the personality.
+When one is able to live within, aware of one's inner being, identified with it and to regard the rest as not oneself, as a creation of ignorant Nature from which one has separated oneself and which has to disappear and, secondly, when by opening oneself constantly to the Divine Light and Force and steadily pushes out the movements of the ignorance and substitutes even in the lower vital and physical being the movements of the inner and higher nature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-human-nature#p18</ref>
-<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-parts-of-the-being#p8</ref>
-==How does Inter-Personal Conflict Affect a Person?==
+Surrender is looked upon as an abdication of the personality; but that is a grievous error. For the individual is meant to manifest one aspect of the Divine Consciousness, and the expression of its characteristic nature is what creates his personality; then, by taking the right attitude towards the Divine, this personality is purified of all the influences of the lower nature which diminish and distort it and it becomes more strongly personal, more itself, more complete. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/4-august-1929#p5 </ref>
-There are many such "personalities" in each one of us. If these personalities agree and are complementary with one another, they make up a human being, a rich and complex "person". But generally, these personalities do not agree with one another. For example, one of them might wish to make some progress, to become more and more perfect, to get a deeper knowledge of things, to realise more and more, to proceed towards the perfection of the being, while another one may simply want to have fun and enjoy itself as much as it can; one day it will do this, the next day something else, etc. If the personalities do not agree, this person's life will be incoherent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/30-december-1950#p11</ref>
-==How Does One’s Psychic Personality Grow? ==
+'''Content curated by Kabita'''
-It is through all the experiences of life that the psychic personality forms, grows, develops and finally becomes a complete, conscious and free being <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-september-1959#p3</ref>
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