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Articles: Education/Training | Vivekananda 's Views
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What really activates the body-mind system?
This question engaged the attention of many seers and sages for years together. They experimented with themselves- their sensory and mental apparatus- and after a disciplined quest found out that there is a divine element in human beings, which is the Mind of mind, Eye of the eyes, Ear of the ears and Speech of the speech. It is this divinity which constitutes the real, “I” and the eternal element in our personality. This divinity survives physical dissolution of the body. This divinity remains latent in us as long as we identify ourselves with our body-mind and sensory system. The goal of life according to the scriptures and the great ones is to manifest this hidden divinity.
Swami Vivekananda Ji observes thus:” Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal”.
Swami Ji 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. In fact he held this manifestation of divinity as the sole index of civilization of human kind. This is the first mantra of personality development.
Will- power: - The essence of personality development lies in strengthening of will-power. 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, impulses and bad impressions. The less we identify with the lower mind, and exercise of Buddhi (discrimination), the more developed will be our personality. This involves struggle 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.
Some essential Requirements:-
Faith in oneself: It’s the sheet anchor of personality development. The faith in God comes next only to faith in oneself. If one believes that one’s real nature is the spirit – not the body or the mind- one would be a better individual with stronger character.
Think Positive thoughts: Positive, wholesome thoughts based on our inherent divinity are essential for a strong character, suppress all base (bad) impressions.
Attitude towards failures/mistakes: Even if one encounters failures/mistakes, its always better as one learns from mistakes too rather than lying dormant like a wall.
Self-reliance: One has to achieve self-reliance through self-faith and by doing his karma (Duty).
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