Basics
Mind is a layered structure. Layers are a result of continuous evolution of the causal body. (karmic storehouse)
There are many layers, for convenience we divide them into 7 (similar to traditional chakra model).
Criteria for judgement or self evaluation is the relative activity of layers. The activities are unique to a mind and keep changing depending on the age, place, time, day and year etc.
So we must compute an average or median value. Its the theme of the life a person has currently.
We can choose several parameters to decide how active a layer is. This is purely subjective, your own choice. Here I have taken the following parameters to decide the strength of a layer.
Behaviour, Speech, Thoughts, Relations, Entertainment, and Afflictions
These are purely empirical in nature, and can be determined precisely by direct observation or an interview (while evaluating others for example)
Essentially, the activity of a layer is a pointer to how evolved the mind is in spiritual terms.
Remember, this is very subjective and rough estimate. And your actions must point to no one else but yourself, if you decide to act on the evaluation.
A rough recommendation for the kind of path one can take depending on their self evaluation is also mentioned. However, only an experienced teacher can recommend a precise path.
Animation : Dynamics of mental layers during 24 hours for different kinds of minds
Animalistic tendencies | Layer 1 | Root | Mooladhar
Behaviour
- Survival
- Security
- Innocence
- Mostly eating and sleeping
- Fearful and obedient
- Suitable for menial and repetitive jobs
- Easy to manipulate
- Conforms easily to society
- Will approach when food and security is needed
Speech
- Talks about food and other survival related issues
- Talks about negative events around them
- Mostly repeat the same ideas again and again
- Parrot what others are saying
- Drops to survival and needs
Thoughts
- Not mentally active
- No planning
- Worries about survival
- Very rigid and full of blind beliefs
- Distracted
Relations
- Very faithful
- Strong bonds
- Prefers to be a dependent
- Long term stable relations
- Remains a loyal friend
- Clings to relations for food and security, even when they go bad
Entertainment
- Food, hunting, gossip, TV or cheap entertainment
Afflictions
- Laziness
- Obesity
- Petty crimes like stealing, robbing
- Turns to begging
Suitable path
- Devotion or Bhakti
- Hatha yoga
- Religious sects
Hedonistic tendencies | Layer 2 | Naval | Swadhishthan
Behaviour
- Pleasure seeking and pain avoiding
- Survival is solved but avoids too much work
- Seeks wealth only for pleasure
- Fears of death and pain
- Easily gets attached to the objects of pleasure
- Use their own body mostly for sense pleasures
- Approaches only if some pleasure is expected or to kill time, avoid boredom
Speech
- Talks about pleasurable experiences
- Concerns about pain and discomfort
- Complains when objects/people providing pleasures are not available easily
- Gossip
- Drops to expression of base desires
Thoughts
- Fantasies of pleasure
- A bit of planning for achieving a desired outcome
- Not very active mind
- Not attentive
Relations
- Faithful till the relation is providing expected pleasure
- Shifts immediately to more pleasurable relations
- Has multiple partners, polygamist
- Give and take
- Highly unreliable
- Has no concern for blood relatives
- Can be very entertaining and friendly with right kind of people
Afflictions
- Perversions appear soon
- Lying and deceit to keep the sources of pleasure
- Use of force and violence for enjoyment
- Kills for covering up the crimes
- Addictions
- Spends all income on addictions and pleasures
Entertainment
- Sex, food, vacations, servants, alcohol, drugs, pornography, cheap literature or movies,
- Parties or gatherings where there is plenty of food, drinks and mates
Suitable path
- Devotion or Bhakti
- Religious sects
- Tantrik sects
- Action or karma (for some)
- Pratyahar (abstinence)
Tribal tendencies | Layer 3 | Solar plexus | Manipur
Behaviour
- Very social, extrovert, active and vocal
- Bold and confident
- Survival machine
- Greedy
- Highly competitive
- Miser
- Extremely selfish
- Aggressive
- Discontent, in rat race, extremely materialistic
- Consumerism, capitalism
- Desires fame and recognition
- Pride
- Superiority complex
- Manipulative and cunning
- Approaches only when wealth or power is expected
- Flaunts
- Hard working, workaholic, not very interested in pleasures
- Patriot, concerned about the tribe, society, country, religion
- Smart, not easy to fool or manipulate
- Prefers authoritative positions
Speech
- Vocal
- Talks endlessly about wealth, rich people, powerful people, sources of wealth and power
- Boasts
- Tries to impress
- Mostly dissatisfied about everything
- Overly negative
- Insults competitors
- Bad mouth more wealthy or powerful
- Feet licker
- Very good at making social contacts
- Argumentative
- Drops to materialistic or selfish talk soon
Thoughts
- Very compelling desires to get more
- Cannot sleep peacefully
- Extremely focused on the goal
- Fears of losing money, objects, relations, social status and power
- Continuously planning and calculating
- Copies the successful people mindlessly
- Adopts a more profitable ideology, belief system
- Highly attentive when profitable, else distracted
Relations
- Based on give and take, businesslike
- Very good providers
- Marries for wealth, social status and profitable partnerships
- Employers, ruling class and military
- Likes to have dependents
- Worships more wealthy and powerful
- No profit no relation
- Pretentious, no real emotion
- Extremely selfish
- Does not like to be a dependent
- Likes large families
- Prefers sons
Entertainment
- News, TV, political, financial, religious, patriotic, power issues, gossips about them, fiction, self help, how to make money books, cheap violent, crime or political movies, parties and meetings for connections
Afflictions
- Manipulation, corruption, deceit, lying, politics, religious groups
- Can do anything for wealth, land, power or fame
- Uses people, relatives, entire society for profit and dominance
- No ethical boundaries
- Mass killings, invasions, rapes and murders at large scale
- Keeps people slaves via brainwashing or force
- Does not want people to rise up in prosperity or intelligence
- Extremely violent
- Forms gangs and armies, invades others, especially weak and peaceful tribes
- Full of hate and disgust
- Obsessions, compulsions, madness, sociopaths
- Racial, political and religious hatred
- Megalomania
Suitable path
- Action or karma
- Service or donations (Protection and providence)
- Isht devotion practices (personal gods)
Emotional tendencies | Layer 4 | Heart | Anahat
Behaviour
- Introvert
- Either joyful or depressed
- Mostly peaceful, except when under emotional distress
- Very motivated
- Sympathy or empathy
- Kind and compassionate
- Social but prefers very specific people
- Talented in performing arts
- Approaches only when finds the person emotionally compatible and safe
- Fickle and sensitive
Speech
- Sweet speech
- Careful about getting hurt or hurting others
- Sometimes rants and complains, gossips
- Poetic speech
- Romantic and can be a pleasure to be with
- Expressive
- Body language (prefers to speak via gestures and poses)
- Honest
- Talks mostly about who is like what, who said what, who pleases me and who hurts me
- Drops into emotional states soon
Thoughts
- Very less or no intellectual thought
- Mostly full of emotions
- No decision making or planning
- Feels their way in life
- Choices based on emotions, feelings
- Irrational desires and fears, negativity
- Incoherent and illogical
- Lacks attention, attentive only to emotionally charged matters
Relations
- Seeks emotional fulfillment
- Monogamous, unless abandoned
- Faithful, unless the partner is a dry person
- Cheats or secretly admires others
- Manipulates to get attention or emotional reactions
- No juice, no relation
- Mood swings affect relations
Entertainment
- Dramas, gossip, romance, music, dance, fantasy stories, cheap juicy fiction, how to be happy books, romantic, musical or drama movies, TV family dramas or light entertainment
Afflictions
- Madness
- Fear, anxiety, phobias, manias, delusions
- Suicidal tendencies
- Depressive maniac
- Compulsive lying to get attention
- Crimes to get basic needs fulfilled
- Envy and self pity
- Stupidity
Suitable path
- Action or karma
- Energetic paths (Shakti, kundalini, kriya)
- Devotion (for some)
Intellectual tendencies | Layer 5 | Throat | Vishuddhi
Behaviour
- Asocial, reclusive, introvert
- Rarely approaches anyone, except when necessary
- Achievements in fine arts, sciences, technology, scholarly matters
- Intelligence pours out of all actions
- Rarely interested in pleasures, hoarding, hard working or overpowering others
- Non-competitive, do that which they love
- No material show offs, but like to show off their knowledge and achievements
- Experts, professionals, highly skilled, teachers, professors
- Do not like menial jobs or repetitive work
- Very curious and innovative
Speech
- Speaks calmly only when spoken to
- Great orators
- Filled with knowledge and experience
- Logical and coherent
- To the point
- Drops down to his own expertise and opinions or knowledge
Thoughts
- Always thinking
- Waking state is dominated by thoughts on various intellectual matters
- Speech is like loud thoughts
- Good at attention, planning and comprehension
- Rational, critical, judgemental and opinionated
Relations
- Not very interested in people
- No substance no relation
- Seek more intelligent partners
- Good in teacher/student relations
- Do not like to be tied down to one relation
- Seek freedom
- Do not like dependency
- Indifferent towards dependents
Entertainment
- Intellectual pursuits
- Non fiction
- Extremely selective
- Generate entertainment rather than consume
- Love challenges to their intelligence, explore and curious
Afflictions
- Rigidity
- Narrow mindedness, has small picture
- Hubris, pride, superiority complex
- No interest in health, body or relations or financial matters
- Difficult to teach once beliefs are formed
- Heartless, dry and boring
- Self centered
- Hate for less evolved
Suitable path
Path of knowledge
Path of action
Occult
Spiritual tendencies | Layer 6 | Command | Ajna
Behaviour
- Peaceful and happy
- Non egoic
- Ego wakes up when needed
- Minimalist
- Asocial, reclusive, hermit, monk, sadhu
- Approaches only when very necessary
- Independent, free
Speech
- Quiet
- Speak a few words only when asked or questioned
- No opinions
- Non intellectual, but displays great wisdom
- Mysterious talk
- Likes to hear more, speak less
- Truthful
- Unpretentious
- Powerful words
Thoughts
- Awareness that replaced thoughts
- Thoughts and mental processes are seen as objects, they happen
- Mostly in savikalp samadhi
- Wise, rational and deep
- Has bigger picture
Relations
- Unconditionally loving
- Detached
- Prefers freedom
- Not bound to anyone
- Friendly to everyone
Entertainment
- Spiritual talks, books, satsangs, writing or arts, astral projecting or occult
Afflictions
- Disregard for body and mind
- Disregard for people, relatives, country or tribe
- Seemingly mentally ill
- Abnormal behaviour
- Energetic complications
- Addiction to spiritual practices
Suitable path
- Direct path
- Pathless path
- Under a great master
Liberated | Layer 7 | Crown | Sahastrar
Behaviour
- Ordinary
- Egoless like a child
- Saintly
- Free and unconcerned with the world or people
- Not in this world
Speech
- Extremely sweet and wise
- Not very interested in talking
- Mostly silent
- Unpredictable
Thoughts
- No thoughts
- They happen when needed
Relations
- Oneness
- Sees others as the self
Entertainment
- No need for that
Afflictions
- None
Suitable path
- None required, already there
Distribution of minds in humanity
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