... needs. In the first place, the latest Indian experiment in psychic education have given us the concept of fourfold personality, — personality of Knowledge, personality of Power, personality of Harmony and personality of Skill. It is further emphasised that the fourfold personality can be integrated by the power of the psychic being as also by the powers of higher domains of the Spirit. In pedagogical... value of art, crafts and physical labour. Appropriate to each student's predominant and subordinate characteristics, the teacher will guide students to arrive ultimately at developing the fourfold personality of knowledge, power, harmony and skill. 8. Emphasis on the power of mental silence The secret of all learning is concentration, and concentration is best developed by cultivating ...
... self-enjoying creative play of the Purusha with his and the world's Nature-Power. " 3 The full richness of personality is the splendid, opulent and marvellous integration of the fourfold personality. The full heart of Love is tranquillised by knowledge into a clam ecstasy and vibrates with strength; the strong hands of Power labour for the world in a radiant fullness of joy and light;... nature harmonised, modulated in the psychic key, put in spiritual order. 5 There are, still, according to Sri Aurobindo, higher levels of consciousness, ranges of the powers of the fourfold personality in the superconscious. These ranges are those of what Sri Aurobindo has termed the higher Mind, the Illumined Min, Intuitive Mind, Overmind and Supermind. An account of all this would form... development is an awakening to the psychic person and the development of body, life and mind in such a manner that they might aid in this .awakening and might become well trained instruments of the fourfold personality of knowledge, strength, harmony and skill. It is should be evident that the personality development as conceived here is a lifelong edification. And yet, it is a process that must begin' ...
... higher Ananda could of itself bring about a total transformation of the deficient or adverse sensibilities of physical Nature." 70 Personality of the Gnostic Being : Perfection of Fourfold Personality There is, indeed, a question of the nature of the personality of the Gnostic being. According to Sri Aurobindo, in the supermind consciousness personality and impersonality are not opposite... Prakriti, the fourfold soul-force is able to formulate all these four forms Page 80 in their fullness and in their integrality; the supramental being, however, goes beyond the integral fourfold personality and is able to utilize these four personalities and manifest without any limitations of personality that the inner Person wills to manifest, and at the level of higher perfections, the inner... Supreme Person, who is anantaguna having infinite qualities and yet nirguna, quality less in the sense of complete transcendence. According to the integral psychology, the development of fourfold personality is a necessary part of the yoga of self- perfection. 71 It observes, however, that even though the fourfold power of the soul-force is latent in every individual being, there is normally p ...
... nature harmonised, modulated in the psychic key, put in spiritual order." 1 10. There are, still, according to Sri Aurobindo, higher levels of consciousness, ranges of the powers of the fourfold personality in the superconscious. These ranges are those of what Sri Aurobindo has termed the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind and Supermind. An account of all this would form... development is an awakening to the psychic person and the development of body, life and mind in such a manner that they might aid in this awakening and might become well trained instruments of the fourfold personality of knowledge, strength, harmony and skill. 12. It should be evident that the personality development as conceived here is a life long education. And yet, it is a process that must begin ...
... concern has been with the question of how to lead these potentialities to their highest and noblest values. The mature fruit of the Indian experiment is to be found in the concept of the fourfold personality as a new basis for integral education. It has been pointed out that there are four central values and powers of personality; if these are rightly balanced throughout the process of development... : body, life and mind. These four values are: knowledge, power, harmony and skill in works. A progressive and rich blossoming of these four values and capacities would result in the fourfold personality, a personality of integral equilibrium. The full richness of personality is manifested when the heart of love is tranquilized by knowledge into calm ecstasy and vibrates with strength, ...
... concern has been with the question of how to lead these potentialities to their highest and noblest values. The mature fruit of the Indian experiment is to be found in the concept of the fourfold personality as a new basis for integral education. It has been pointed out that there are four central values and powers of personality; if these are rightly balanced throughout the process of development... instruments: body, life and mind. These four values are: knowledge, power, harmony and skill in works. A progressive and rich blossoming of these four values and capacities would result in the fourfold personality, a personality of integral equilibrium. The full richness of personality is manifested when the heart of love is tranquilized by knowledge into calm ecstasy and vibrates with strength ...
... But this is not enough. There is in us a central being, who is the ever young traveller. 10-D. The Central Being should grow to achieve: (a) Truth, Beauty and Goodness; and (b) Fourfold personality of Knowledge, Power, Harmony, Skill in Works. Page 35 1. The lotus of the eternal knowledge and the eternal perfection is a bud closed and folded up within us. Page... There is in us a central being, who is the ever young traveller. Page 50 10-D. The Central Being should grow to achieve: (a) Truth, Beauty and Goodness. (b) Fourfold personality of knowledge, Power, Harmony, Skill in Works. Page 51 ...
... practised to a greater or a lesser degree in the ancient system of education. The Indian educational theory and practice laid special emphasis on swabhava and swadharma and on the idea of fourfold personality which can be perfected by developing the individual soul, conceived not as an ego but as a harmonious entity which has its own uniqueness and which yet lives by mutuality and harmony with the ...
... vital and the physical. This would also imply the perfect dynamic force of the temperament, character and inmost soul-nature which would result in what Sri Aurobindo calls the perfection of the fourfold personality, the personality of knowledge, of strength, of harmony and love and of skill and service. This movement is further strengthened by called in the divine Power or Shakti to replace the limited ...
... and the physical. This would also imply the perfect dynamic force of the temperament, character and inmost soul-nature, which would result in what Sri Aurobindo calls the perfection of the fourfold personality, the personality of knowledge, of strength, of harmony and love and of skill and service. This movement is further strengthened by calling in the divine Power or Shakti to replace the limited ...
... in each of us, even though all of them are at different levels of development and different levels of interrelationship or integration. In terms of Indian psychology, we have the concept of fourfold personality, — personality of knowledge, personality of heroism, personality of harmonisation and personality devoted to works and service. It is when these four personalities reach the level of a progressive ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XV Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality The perfecting of the normal mind, heart, prana and body gives us only the perfection of the psycho-physical machine we have to use and creates certain right instrumental conditions for a divine life and works lived and done with a purer, greater, clearer ...
... gradually approaching Sri Aurobindo's definitive realisation of the nature of the Supermind. Virya energy, strength of character; soul-force expressing itself through the fourfold personality (brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra), an element of the sakticatustaya. Ashta Siddhi There are two siddhis of knowledge, three of power and three of being. All siddhis ...
... Evolutionary process, 69 Body and supramental work, 97-9 Body, transformed, 199 Food, 164-5, 210, 217-8 Brahman, dynamic and static, 13 Forest, virgin, 130 Fourfold personality, 270 Call, 252 Cataleptic state, 36 Gita, 11, 27-8 Cataleptic trance, 187, 218-21 Gods, 84 Cells, 88, 162, 163, 167-8, 170-1, 172-4, 186-9 ...
... a recognised ideal that the Indian educational thought has held out as one of the supreme spiritual values. In its fullness the idea of integrated personality connotes the perfection of a fourfold personality that harmonises wisdom, power, love and skill in works. It is therefore recommended that the pursuit of this fullness of integrated personality may be regarded as one of the highest values ...
... mutuality and harmony that spring from the deepest psychic and spiritual recesses and heights that are nurtured by the processes of learning to be and to become. 39 Fourfold personality of Knowledge, Power, Harmony, Skill in Works. ...
... The Jivatman and Psychic Entity, Psychic Being and its character, growth, development, fulfilment Psychic and Spiritual personality Page 367 Soul-Powers and Fourfold personality of Knowledge, Power, Love and Skill Integral Personality Fundamental Experiences of the Yogi Experiences of the Witness Self, Cosmic Consciousness, Silent Self ...
... personality which need to be studied in this connection. These relate to multi-dimensional personality, balanced personality and personality of equanimity. There is also in India a concept of fourfold personality of Wisdom, Power, Harmony and Skill. One part of the important concept of value, which should be examined at the higher level, is that of the relationship between science and values. Here ...
... a light kindling other lights, an awakened soul awakening souls, at the highest a channel, a representative of the higher truth and realisation. Method of Indian Pedagogy: Towards Fourfold Integral Personality The method of Indian pedagogy did not consist of any fixed and mechanical framework. The teacher's system was a natural organisation of the highest processes and movements of which... development of integral personality that blended as perfectly as possible a harmony of four personalities of knowledge, power, harmony and skilful service. This pedagogy aimed at providing sunshine for the flowering of the inner soul of each individual, and it perceived and applied the truth that the secret of each one's profession lies in his or her Page 309 personality. The skill of the teacher... teachers and parents. Even today, the behaviourist pedagogy prescribes principles and methods of teaching that aim at development of behaviour rather than the development of inner being and inner personality of the learner. Even today, even where behaviouristic pedagogy is not preponderate, importance is attached to the external and mechanical means of imparting information and of the development of ...
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