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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
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/the-complex-make-up-of-the-human-personalities/
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We tend to look on ourselves as
being of a specific nature and

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having a specific personality.
We see main lines of

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understanding of reaction and of
action and look upon these as

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who we are.
If we take a closer look however

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we soon begin to see that we are
not as simple and homogeneous as

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it first seemed A multitude of
different forces energies levels

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of consciousness, all find their
place in the human individual,

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and make us much more complex
and difficult to categorize than

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we believe.
Thus they have ski the famous

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Russian author of The Brothers,
karamazov undertook, a detailed

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study of the human personality
at least as far as he could,

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trace it out by trying to
separate out the various

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personality element in two
different individuals.

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Although he also recognized that
all of the primary characters,

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those that were the most
unregenerate and those that were

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the most highly developed.
Shared certain basic underlying

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characteristics and could
therefore understand one another

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and interact with one.
Another Alexei was the youngest

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brother who took up a more
devotional line of Interest.

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Ivan had a station that was
quite meant, alized Dimitri was

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driven by emotion and by lower
vital Energies, Their father,

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fyodor was immersed in the vital
and the lower vital energy is

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related to Greed lust and anger.
In reality, each individual

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encompasses the entire gamut of
human capability with some

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extending their range.
Far beyond those which Prevail

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ordinarily with development of
higher spiritual over mental

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intuitive and psychic, Soul
development.

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Obviously, Be at play in their
being with all of this interplay

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and complexity.
It is no wonder that it is

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virtually impossible to predict
the exact line of development or

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action of any individual or even
how they will respond to

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specific circumstances.
Those who have a characteristic

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primary personality or highly
developed trait, they frequently

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act according to the lines of
that development, but there are

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always opportunities and
circumstances where something

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else comes out and expresses
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The field of Psychiatry finds it
difficult to deal with this

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complexity and therefore it sets
a standard of what it considers

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to be normal and tries to fit
those who are struggling to

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understand their lives and their
interaction with Society into

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this defined and limited
framework.

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Traditional Psychiatry has
developed a type of procrustean

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bed and if they have to cut off
an individual psychological legs

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or head to make him fit into
this Frame then so be it.

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This shows a real lack of
deeper, understanding about the

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larger framework within which we
exist, the significance of our

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lives and the many-sided nature
and personality.

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That Souls can express as they
evolve grow and develop new

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insights powers and capacities.
Luckily, modern psychological

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research and the work of
individuals, such as CG, Jung

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have worked to break out of this
limitation and bring to an

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understanding of human
psychology, a much wider, and

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more flexible approach that is
beginning to recognize the

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inherent complexity of the human
personality.

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The mother notes quote, the
complexity arises, not only in

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extension, but it also in depth.
man does not live on a single

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plane, but on many planes at the
same time, There is a scale of

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gradation in human
consciousness.

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The Higher One rises in the
scale, the greater than number

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of elements or personalities
that one, possesses whether one

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lives mostly or mainly on the
physical, or vital, or mental

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plane, or on any particular
section of these planes or on

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the planes above and beyond
them.

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There will be accordingly
differences in the Constitution,

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or psychophysical makeup of the
individual personality.

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The Higher One stands, the
Richer the personality because

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it lives, not only on its own
normal level, but also on all

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the levels that are below it and
which it has transcended, the

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complete or integral man.
Some occultus say possesses 365

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personalities, indeed.
It may be much more.

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The Vedas speak of the three and
thirty, three, and thirty three,

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hundred and thirty three
thousand gods, that may be

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housed in the human vehicle.
The basic three being evidently

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the triple status or world of
body, life, and mind, and quote,

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reference SRI aurobindo, and the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 8, the psychic being and

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Inner growth Pages 150, to 151.
Inner growth Pages 150, to 151.