(by Karmayogi)
Personality exists at 5 levels, viz.
|
physical --
|
body |
|
vital -- |
nerves |
|
mental -- |
mind |
|
spiritual -- |
soul |
|
Being -- |
Person
& Personality |
-- A man's ultimate
accomplishment depends on how much strength he has in his being.
-- At each of these five
levels there exists two layers of one) consciousness and two) substance. Accomplishment
at the level of consciousness will be great and cover the whole field but will
be confined to the original area of your life. Substance lies deeper.
Accomplishment or strength at this level will help a person rise higher and
higher as substance provides the foundation.
For example, if a trader accomplishes in his
consciousness, he will continue to expand his sales till he becomes the number
one in his trade in his town. Consciousness has the power to take you to the
limits of your trade and to the borders of your town. There it stops. Beyond
this consciousness does not have power.
Substance has greater power. When one who
has strength in his substance becomes the number one trader (e.g. textile shop)
in his town, he has the capacity to move up either to a bigger town or to
becoming a wholesaler.
How is consciousness different from
substance? Simply consciousness is on the surface, substance lies deeper. In
the mental plane mind belongs to the consciousness; brain, the physical part,
represents the substance. In the emotional plane, consciousness lies in the
vital, substance resides in the nerves.
Consciousness Substance
|
mental
plane |
-- |
Mind |
brain |
|
vital
plane |
-- |
emotions |
nerves |
|
physical
plane |
-- |
physical
consciousness |
body |
(To acquire strength in the
whole being is to first acquire
it in each of these
parts.)
The personality -- Soul (psychic) The central being (Jivatman)
How to start, what to do,
where to begin?
Physical:
1) Hard, non-stop work beyond
12 hours, preferably 16 hours, willingly done at home, in the college and
elsewhere. If extended to 18 or 20 hours it becomes desirable. Willingness
releases energy and makes it possible to exert for long hours.
2. The element of
willingness makes it consecrated work and gives the required energy.
3. This work if organised to
be regular, systematic, punctual, orderly, methodical
brings in strength of physical consciousness.
4. Bending the back, exerting the muscles, doing
it after remembering Mother, not seeking to do things out of habit, takes the
strength from the consciousness to the physical substance.
5. Indication that we are on the right lines
is physical energy is always overflowing, and the body exults in JOY.
Vital:
1. Readiness to give up
likes and dislikes in preference to work is the first condition. Here you will see Mother's Energy pouring in.
2. The more you come forward
to reverse your dislikes and do the very opposite, the greater will be the
result.
3. Here too organisation assumes the same
significance as in the physical.
4. Doing the opposite of
your dislikes, your family's tradition and human preference sends the strength
of consciousness to the substance in the nerves.
5. Right indication is
increasing pleasant human relationships, particularly rivals and enemies
turning friends.
6. Key here is to list out ALL
traits like lack of manners, temper, anger, sharp speech, etc. and endeavour to
wipe them out.
Mental:
1. Willingness to exert the
mind to understand more of the work we are doing.
2. Organisation assumes the
greatest of importance.
3. Knowing the other man's
point of view is the pillar here.
4. Right indication is
sudden clarity that makes you understand what you have
not understood so
far.
5. A crown here is original
plans, strategies, ideas, etc.
Spiritual:
Spiritual consciousness is all-pervasive.
Its seat is the soul, self or Spirit inside. The substance is in the seat.
Truth, Consciousness, Force, Will, Bliss, Delight, Knowledge, Beauty, Love,
Joy, Power, Infinity, Eternity, Immortality, Light are its aspects. Silence and
Peace are its central aspects. When a work is done or we read, speak, think, if
Silence or Peace descends we are doing it spiritually. So
also for other aspects. In speaking if we become more and more
truthful, by being frank and factual we grow into spirit.
Work, what it leads to, and the human
faculties that help are tabulated below as a skeleton sample:
|
Work Spiritual aspect Human faculty that
may help |
|
1. |
Truth |
Frankness |
|
Speaking |
Knowledge |
Being
informed |
|
Bargaining |
Will |
Clarity |
|
Mental work |
Light |
Decisiveness |
|
|
|
|
|
2. observation |
Consciousness |
alertness |
|
travel |
Power |
curiosity |
|
attending |
Delight |
pleasantness |
|
interpersonal relation |
|
other
man's point of view |
|
Human
relationship |
|
discipline |
|
Living together in a family |
|
sense
of duty |
|
office work |
|
orderliness,
cooperation |
|
|
|
|
|
3. (Good) Will |
Beauty |
desire
to please |
|
|
Love |
self-giving |
|
|
Joy |
|
Personality:
The whole being carries OUR CONSCIOUSNESS.
Its substance lies in our body, nerves and brain. Calm, quiet, stillness,
absence of restlessness, passivity, motionlessness, patience, equality are the attributes
of BEING. In work if we endeavour to be calm or patient etc., strength in the
consciousness of being collects. When it goes down deeper still, we feel like a
rock. Then it touches the substance.
All the faculties mentioned under physical,
vital, mental, spiritual are summarized here in calm, etc.
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