The Human Personality: Embodied Materiality and Its Psycho-physical Development—A Vedānta Critique

The chapter begins with highlighting the Vedāntic concept of the major psycho-physical constituents of a human being with a raw ego of individuality. It then focuses firstly on the role of mind/brain, individual soul/Universal Soul, individual self/Cosmic Self in the development of its basic personality, and secondly on its pursuit for a strong human character using will power and mind control for its sustained personality development. The more a human mind becomes disciplined and refined, more does the personality become conscious of the existence of soul energy within what the Vedānta calls the real source of ‘surplus’ in human beings.