What is Personality?

Mere external appearance or a person's speech or mannerisms are only fringes of one's personality. They do not reflect the real personality.

According to the Cambridge International dictionary of English, '' Your personality is the type of person you are,which is shown by the way you behave,feel and think.''

Can we train our mind to obey us,to cooperate with us? How can it contribute to the development of our personality?

According to the Bhagavad Gita, ''The undisciplined mind acts as our enemy,whereas the trained mind acts as our friend. ''So,we need to have a clear idea of the mechanism of our mind.

The fourfold functions of the Mind:

1.Memory

The storehouse of memory and impressions of our past experiences presents various possibilities before the mind.The storehouse ia called 'chitta'(also known as our subconscious mind). The sum total of these impressions determine our character.

2.Deliberation and Conceptualization

'Manas',the faculty of mind that deliberated on several things.Imaginations and formation of concepts are also functions of manas.

3.Determination and Decision-Making

'Buddhi' is the faculty responsible for decision making,to judge the pros and cons of things and find what is more desirable.

4.'I' Consciousness

Appropriating to oneself,all physical and mental activities is called 'ahamkara' or 'I' consciousness. As long as the 'I' identifies itself with the undisciplined body-mind complex,human life is dictated by events and circumstances of the world.

What is Character?

Character is the key principle governing the personality of an individual. Every actions and thought of ours leaves an impression in our mind.These impressions determine how we behave at a given moment, how we respond to a given situation. The sum total of all our impressions is what determines our character.

Central Message of Swami Vivekananda

'My Ideal indeed can be put into a few words and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity and how to make it manifest in every movement of life'.Man's inherent divinity was Swamiji's central message.

He was never tired of rousing people to be conscious of their inherent divinity and perfection. He wanted this divinity to manifest in our day- to-day lives.

Development involves struggle to grapple with one's mind and it's old habits,to cultivate new and wholesome ones.And 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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