Book Title: Jainism the Creed for All Times
Author(s): D S Baya
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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________________ (b) Bearing - (i) Gait, (ii) Carriage, and (iii) Seat and posture. (c) Body-language shows - (i) Confidence or diffidence, (ii) Submission or resistance, and (iii) Careful or careless nature, etc. (d) Mannerisms - These are significant body movements that indicate various personality traits such as emphasis, nervousness, confidence or the lack of it, etc. (e) Eye-contact - A person's eyes tell much more in an instant than it is possible to find out about him by talking to him for hours. They are indicative of his inner qualities and his nature. Intellectual Aspect Of Personality - The audio-visual impact of personality is complete only when the visual physical personality is supplemented by the audio intellectual personality. Intellectual aspect of personality includes all those elements, which project a person and create an impression at the intellectual level, which is much stronger than the visual physical impact. These elements are - (a) Intelligence -- It is a person's ability to understand abstract relationships between things and objects. It can be verbal, and non-verbal. Intelligence tests are designed to test this aspect of a person's personality. (b) Knowledge -- It involves 1. Learning, and 2. Memory, which is a combination of retention, and timely and relevant recall. (c) Imagination - It is a person's ability to visualize various JAINA PRECEPTS FOR PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT : 369

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