persona

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In a letter to a disciple, Sri Aurobindo wrote that "the very first step in getting out of the ignorance is to accept the fact that this outer consciousness is not one's soul, not oneself, not the real person, but only a temporary formation on the surface .... the outer personality is the person only in the sense of the Latin word persona which meant originally a mask."

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  1. noun A voice or character representing the speaker in a literary work.
  2. noun The characters in a dramatic or literary work.
  3. noun The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self.

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  • "I modified your VR interface to fit me, but this persona is a product of your own software programs What do you want here?" —  Analog, July-August 2006
  • He seems himself not to know exactly how much of the persona was a put-on, but it is this persona that he must readopt in order to function as a man once again. —  FTITLESF,Apr2004
  • Imagine a system where, every time I do business with your persona, I rate your reliability, and it doesn't matter of the persona is an individual or a bank … or a government. —  QandO
  • While my persona is a boy, it is possible for any Maryland student to become Testudo regardless of their gender or skin color. —  Maryland Terrapins News -- www.umterps.com
  • As a default, your picture in your persona is the Texas flag. —  Statesman - AP Sports
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persona:   personae
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