Swami Yogananda's Psychological Chart of 1925 - (1925 Original Edition)  (Paperback, Swami Yogananda)

The purpose of this Chart is to help people in freeing their soul and will from ignorance, undesirable environmental influences, slavish customs, bad habits, and entanglements, by teaching them to understand and develop all the possibilities of their real nature, and by pointing out and eliminating their bad habits and tendencies. By analysis and introspection the student learns to know himself through this Chart, and the knowledge of how to improve will follow naturally. In order to know what he ought to be, he must first be acquainted with what he is. Qualitatively considered, this Chart is very comprehensive, inasmuch as it is not one-sided, but embraces the qualities of every phase of man’s nature. Most modern systems concentrate on the development of intellect alone, sometimes even at the cost of spiritual growth. This Psychological Chart is used in connection with every student in my school in Ranchi, India, which has an enrollment of 300 students. Every student is carefully and lovingly observed by two or three teachers, and his conduct and habits as well as intellectual faculties are minutely recorded. This Chart will greatly help all individuals, men, women and children, and is intended especially for my students in America, who should keep a record or even a mental diary of their changing tendencies, marking out their progress in the development of any good qualities which they may lack and which they are trying to cultivate. Everyone desirous of following the path of Truth ought to live a harmonious material as well as spiritual life. His material activities connected with his physical body, family life, and money-making should all be carefully and successfully performed. His body should be healthy, his financial status good, his matrimonial and social relationships ideal, and his mental life well-balanced. His spiritual development should enable him to harmonize all the activities and duties of his life, so that they all contribute to his lasting peace and happiness. He should master his senses, not be enslaved by them. This Chart will greatly help parents to properly bring up their children, in an all-around way, if it is applied during their early life, when different actions and environments have not left indelible hardened habit-impressions on them. By using this Chart, one is furnished with the details of all his formed habits, those habits in the process of formation, his instincts, and the condition of his body, mind and soul faculties. See yourself as the maker of all that you are, possessed of the power to make yourself whatever you wish and ought to be. This little Chart will be your searchlight in the dark pathways of life. Use it always.