Understanding Human Personality

In this masterful seminar, Swami Veda gives a clear survey of the important elements that make up the personality from the material to the highest spiritual levels. He describes the fives pranas (subtle energies) and discusses Yoga psychology and the Indian study of mind and consciousness. Swamiji also clearly explains the often misunderstood topic of kundalini, and details the power and nature of the kundalini as well as the experience of energy currents in meditation. He explores the chakras, their locations and associations, and some misconceptions about the opening of the chakras. Swamiji then examines the subtle body and subtle elements, dealing with such topics as theories of reincarnation; the relationship of life-force, the body and the subtle body; mechanisms of the ripening of karmas; and mastery of the subtle elements. Finally, Swamiji explores Samkya philosophy and discusses the manifest and unmanifest universe; prakriti, gunas and manifestation; the qualities of the gunas; subjective and objective creation; and paying off karmic debt. *Understanding Human Personality is part of a series of courses, along with Superconscious Meditation, Lectures on Mantra and Nature of Personality that Swami Veda considered the “fundamental” sequence of courses in the Himalayan tradition.