The divine core of our
personality is covered, as it were, by five dimensions.
· Physical dimension
consisting our body and senses.
· Energy dimension which
performs digestion of food, circulation of blood, respiration and other
activities in the body.
· Mental dimension
characterized by the activities of the mind, like, thinking, feeling and
emotions, etc.
· Intellectual dimension
characterized by the determinative faculty in a person. This is also the seat
of discrimination and will power.
· Blissful dimension
experienced as bliss during deep sleep.
Personality development implies progressive identification with
higher dimensions of personality. Thus a person identified only with the
physical dimension without exercising his higher mental faculties, lives not
far different from animals, whose pleasure and pain are restricted to the
sensory system.
Development involves struggle with one’s lower mind characterized by
desires, old habits, wrong tendencies, impulses and bad impressions. The lesser
we identify with the lower mind, and the more we identify with the higher mind,
and exercise our buddhi (discrimination), the more developed will ore
personality be. This involves struggle to grapple with one’s mind and its ld
habits, to cultivate new and wholesome ones. But this struggle is the greatest
of all struggles in that it makes us civilized in the real sense of the term by
manifesting our divinity and thereby our hidden perfection.
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