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| − | =What is Personality?=
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| − | Personality, like consciousness, life, soul, is not a brief-lived stranger in an impersonal Eternity, but contains the very meaning of existence.
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| − | 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>
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| − | The Person puts forward the personality as his role, character, persona, in the
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| − | ==Characteristics of Human Personalities ==
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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>
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| − | ==Being a World-Personality==
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| − | 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>
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| − | ==Individual Self and Personality==
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| − | The Self, even the individual self, is different from our personality as it is different from our
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| − | mental ego-sense. Our personality is never the same; it is a constant mutation and various
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| − | ==The Triple Status of Personalities in Human==
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| − | 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.
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| − | ==What does Harmonious Personality mean?==
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| − | 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.
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| − | ==What is Divine Personality?==
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| − | Transform the divided individual into the world-personality; let all thyself be the divine. This is thy goal.
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| − | ==Personalities in Different Parts of the Being ==
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| − | 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>
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| − | 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>
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| − | ===In the Psychic Being===
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| − | 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>
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Read more about Personlaity from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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Why is the Path to Arrive at Divine Personality Different for All?
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. [1]
Why is Integrality of Personalities Important?
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.
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How does Inter-Personal Conflict Affect a Person?
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. [3]
How Does One’s Psychic Personality Grow?
It is through all the experiences of life that the psychic personality forms, grows, develops and finally becomes a complete, conscious and free being [4]
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Read more about Personality from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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