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Understanding the Separate Aspects of Being That Make Up the Human Individual’s Personality · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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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.