FOUR CHARACTER-TYPES OF ALL HUMAN MINDS

FOUR CHARACTER-TYPES OF ALL HUMAN MINDS -



KNOWLEDGE
(Verse nos.20, 21, 22 )

Did the individual have a true knowledge of the One-ness of all things?
Did he have only an imperfect knowledge which did not go beyond the plurality on the
surface?
Did he have a totally false knowledge that spared him no eye for the real nature of things?


ACTION
(Verse nos. 23, 24, 25)

Did the individual have the right attitude to Action, without attachment, the action done as a
duty, not for love, hate or gain?
Did he have a vain attitude to action, which was always done to satisfy desires impelled by
ego and stress?
Did he have a dull attitude, in mechanical obedience to one's instincts heedless of the hurt or
wrong done to others?


DOER
(Verse Nos.26,27,28)

Was the individual as a doer, free from attachment, free from egoism, full of a fixed
impersonal resolution and a calm rectitude of zeal, unelated by success, and undepressed by
failure?
Was he eagerly attached to the work, passionately desirous of fruit, greedy, impure, often
violent, cruel and brutal in the means used, full of joy in success and of grief in failure?
Was he a doer with a mind mechanical, unthinking, stubborn and obstinate, cunning,
insolenbt, lazy, despondent and procrastinating?


INTELLECT
(Verse nos. 30,31,32)

Did the individual develop a good intellect which comprehends what must be done and what
must not be done, what should be feared and what should not be feared, what binds and what
elevates?
Was his intellect confused without knowing how to decide between right and wrong?
Was his intellect totally wrapped up in a cloud of misconceptions and looked upon right as
wrong and vice versa?


WILL-POWER
(Verse Nos. 33.34, 35)

Did the individual have a steadfast will-power, fixed in unshaken faith and piety?
Did he have his will-power stained whereby one held to the ego for the sake of life and
gains?
Did he have the will wedded to sorrow, folly, despair, misery and a path of least resistance?


HAPPINESS
(Verse Nos. 37, 38, 39)

Did the individual have that attitude to pleasure or happiness which did not care for the
initial unhappiness knowing full well that it will lead to ultimate happiness?
Did he have the attitude to happiness which wanted instantaneous pleasure that finally
ended up with the disgust and disappointment of unhappiness?
Was he simply satisfied with the dull inertial happiness of sleep, stupor,
laziness, error and sin?

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