swayamassessment

Swayam, is a Sanskrit word which literally means “oneself” or “own”.  Here at the Swayam Personality Assessment^TM portal, we provide for a person to assess themselves, giving answers to universal questions spontaneously, thereby providing a mirror to the personality of a respondent for a better understanding of oneself—one’s needs, wants, thought processes, behaviour and thinking patterns—this being the primary aim of this website. It gives an analysis of one’s personality based on one’s answers leading to a better insight of oneself and one’s needs.
 
Personality is basically understood by three major domains or methods in Indian Philosophy from which Indian Psychology has evolved. They are Pancha Kosha, Pancha Mahabhutas and Trigunas.

The first domain is that of understanding the person from the view point of the Pancha Koshas, which has been written about for the first time in the Taittiriya Upanishad. This is the earliest reference to the study of human personality from the Indian psycho-philosophical point of view.

 The second domain is that of understanding personality is from the Samkhyan principles of Pancha Maha Bhutas—which is common to all Darshanas of Indian Philosophy—wherein the personality is said to be a composition of the five “elements” (elements are just an approximation of the term Mahabhutas and not an exact meaning) of Ether/ Sky, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. The Sanskrit equivalents of these names are Akasa, Vayu, Agni, Ap and Prithvi respectively. These five elements combine with each other to form the Tridoshas—the physiological traits of Vata, Pitta and Kapha which give each and every one of us the unique characteristic that makes us what and who we are and the reasons for our behaviours.

The third domain is that of understanding personality from the view point of the Trigunas—the psychological attributes responsible for the exhibition and behaviour of traits and types of human personality—consisting of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. These Trigunas are again common psychological representation of human behaviour across all the orthodox Indian traditional systems of Philosophy.  In fact each and every action, talk, food we eat, and behaviour can be classified as being a representation of one of the three Gunas. These three methodologies—Pancha Koshas, Tridoshas and Trigunas—form the most important and comprehensive methodology of understanding Human Personality from the Indian Traditional view point and perspective.