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The Complex Make-Up of the Human Personalities · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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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 itself.
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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.