Understanding the Separate Aspects of Being That Make Up the Human Individual’s Personality

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Most people look at what they
consider to be their personality

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in a very simple and
straightforward manner.

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The mixture of ideas thought
process emotional responses,

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vital reactions, desires and
physical needs.

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And Cravings is simply who they
are.

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When they conclude that
something needs to change, they

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try any number of strategies
such as invoking resolutions,

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development of willpower, or
even various forms of self

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Education and Training of some
aspect of their being.

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In all of this, they tend not to
identify nor recognize the

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different aspects of their being
and the different energetic

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forces at work in these various.
Levels.

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It is at this point that the
psychological wisdom of the

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chakras becomes evident.
The chakras are subtle energy

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centers that successively
respond to and transmit

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different types of energies
Associated, either with the

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physical being the vital being
or the mental being in an

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ascending order of development.
The chakra system implicitly has

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to recognize that there are
various different types of

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energy that work on different
levels of the being, and it

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thereby opens up an entire range
of human psychological

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understanding that is not widely
appreciated nor understood in

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the West.
The mother notes quote, the

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ordinary human being is
conscious only in his physical

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being and only in relatively
rare moments, is he conscious of

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his mind just a little more
frequently of his vital.

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But all this is mixed up in his
Consciousness so much so that he

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would be quite unable to say,
this movement comes from the

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mind this from the vital, this
from the physical This already

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asks for a considerable
development in order to be able

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to distinguish within oneself.
The source of the different

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movements one has and it is so
mixed that even when one tries

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at the beginning, it is very
difficult to classify and

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separate one thing from another
It is as when one works with

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colors takes three or four or
five different colors and puts

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them in the same water and beat
them up together, it makes a

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gray indistinct and
incomprehensible mixture.

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You see and one can't say, which
is red, which blue, which

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Greenwich yellow, it is
something dirty.

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Lots of colors mixed.
So first of all, one must do

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this little work of Separating
the red blue, yellow green,

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putting them like this each and
it's corner.

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It is not at all easy.
I have met people who used to

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think themselves extremely
intelligent by the way who

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thought they knew a lot.
And when I spoke to them about

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the different parts of the being
they looked at me like this and

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ask me, but what are you
speaking about?

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They did not understand at all.
I am, speaking of people who

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have the reputation of being
intelligent, they don't

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understand at all for them.
It is just the Consciousness, it

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is.
The Consciousness, it is my

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Consciousness, and then there is
the neighbors Consciousness.

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And again, there are things
which do not have any

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Consciousness.
And then I asked them whether

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animals had a Consciousness.
So they began to scratch their

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head and said, perhaps it is, we
who put our Consciousness in the

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animal.
When we look at it like that

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reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother, Our many selves

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practical yogic psychology
chapter one, our manifold being

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Pages, 1 to 2.