Dimensions of Personality Development

Strengthening of will-power, the essence of personality development: 

The divine core of our personality is covered, as it were, by five dimensions:

• Physical dimension consisting of 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.

Each succeeding dimension is subtler than the preceding one and pervades it.

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 our personality be. This involves struggle to grapple with one's mind and its old 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.

In other words, these dimensions can also be referred as the Panchakoshas namely:

• Annamaya Kosha 
• Pranamaya Kosha
• Manomaya Kosha
• Vijnamaya Kosha
• Anandmaya Kosha

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