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May 2, 2023

The Complex Make-Up of the Human Personalities

The Complex Make-Up of the Human Personalities
The Complex Make-Up of the Human Personalities
Sri Aurobindo Studies
The Complex Make-Up of the Human Personalities
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0:01 We tend to look on ourselves as being of a specific nature and having a specific personality. We see main lines of understanding of reaction and of action and look upon these as who we are. If we take a closer look however we soon begin to see that we are not as simple and homogeneous as it first seemed A multitude of different forces energies levels of consciousness, all find their place in the human individual, and make us much more complex and difficult to categorize than we believe. Thus they have ski the famous Russian author of The Brothers, karamazov undertook, a detailed study of the human personality at least as far as he could, trace it out by trying to separate out the various personality element in two different individuals.

1:02 Although he also recognized that all of the primary characters, those that were the most unregenerate and those that were the most highly developed. Shared certain basic underlying characteristics and could therefore understand one another and interact with one. Another Alexei was the youngest brother who took up a more devotional line of Interest. Ivan had a station that was quite meant, alized Dimitri was driven by emotion and by lower vital Energies, Their father, fyodor was immersed in the vital and the lower vital energy is related to Greed lust and anger. In reality, each individual encompasses the entire gamut of human capability with some extending their range. Far beyond those which Prevail ordinarily with development of higher spiritual over mental intuitive and psychic, Soul development.

2:08 Obviously, Be at play in their being with all of this interplay and complexity. It is no wonder that it is virtually impossible to predict the exact line of development or action of any individual or even how they will respond to specific circumstances. Those who have a characteristic primary personality or highly developed trait, they frequently act according to the lines of that development, but there are always opportunities and circumstances where something else comes out and expresses itself.

2:49 The field of Psychiatry finds it difficult to deal with this complexity and therefore it sets a standard of what it considers to be normal and tries to fit those who are struggling to understand their lives and their interaction with Society into this defined and limited framework. Traditional Psychiatry has developed a type of procrustean bed and if they have to cut off an individual psychological legs or head to make him fit into this Frame then so be it. This shows a real lack of deeper, understanding about the larger framework within which we exist, the significance of our lives and the many-sided nature and personality.

3:36 That Souls can express as they evolve grow and develop new insights powers and capacities. Luckily, modern psychological research and the work of individuals, such as CG, Jung have worked to break out of this limitation and bring to an understanding of human psychology, a much wider, and more flexible approach that is beginning to recognize the inherent complexity of the human personality. The mother notes quote, the complexity arises, not only in extension, but it also in depth. 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.

4:28 The Higher One rises in the scale, the greater than 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 psychophysical makeup 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, the complete or integral man. Some occultus say possesses 365 personalities, indeed. It may be much more.

5:25 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, and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 8, the psychic being and Inner growth Pages 150, to 151. Inner growth Pages 150, to 151.