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HOW TO DEVELOP A SUPERIOR PERSONALITY-
A VISION FOR THE VALUE EMPOWERED YOUTH
Gary Zukav writes in The Seat of the Soul, “The
essence of a person is not the clothing she
wears or the things he does. People who love
them do not stop loving them when they
change clothing or do other things. Your
essence is not even your history, culture, race,
or what you think and do. It is your soul.”
The essence that he talks about, here, is not the
material essence of a person. It is the essence
of the soul of a human that makes up his or her
personality. In Sanskrit, ‘Vyaktitva’ is the word for
personality, which is made of the two words ‘Vyakti’ incurably gross and incapable of spiritual
(Human being) and ‘sattva’ (essence), meaning realization or spiritual use to put this in
essence of human being. When we do something practice one has to start working on one’s
again and again, we form a habit. Ultimately these physical and mental essence of personality.”
habits form a particular behaviour. If they recur
frequently, they become a part of our psyche. When we focus on the development of our
They are reflected in all our activities—what spiritual or our higher self, we automatically feel
we say, what we do, how we behave in certain more in sync with the inside of us as well as the
circumstances and even in how we think. They external environment. This makes us feel more
become the core of our personality. emotionally stable and charged which in turn
results in a state of outright mental balance. It
Money, power and fame are a set of components is a physiologically proven fact that a balanced
that are required for materialistic empowerment. person is more likely to act calm and wisely to
These things may give you a ‘dashing’ personality bring out the best outcomes in difficult situations.
but will never give you a ‘glorious’ one. When the In general, people also tend to like to be around
personality comes to fully serve the energy of its people who are happy and cheerful and have a
soul that is, authentic empowerment. well-balanced life.
The ‘glorious’ or the ‘superior’ personality can only Yet another way of obtaining the superior nature
be attained by inspiring oneself to be spiritually in a positive aspect is by the power of Hope and
fulfilled. One has to inculcate holistic values in Faith. Not in deities. Not in scriptures. Not in
order to create a persona that is truly sublime in others but, in yourself. On an occasion of being
every sense. But the main question arises that introduced to a person who believes in himself
how do we do that? How do we procure such a and has a confident faith, most people would see
character? It is simple. Each soul and physical a personality that is more superior and glorious
body is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest than others’.
this divinity within by controlling nature, external
and internal. This can be done either by work or Uplifting one’s personality to re-mold it into a
workshop or psychic control or philosophy. In more superior or glorious one is quintessential
this regard Sri Aurobindo says “I put a value on to attain physical, mental and spiritual stability
the body first as an instrument, for sadhana, which can help us to do wonders in our material
or, more fully, as a center of manifested life as well. This can be done by imbibing all the
personality in action, a basis of spiritual life qualities needed for inner growth through spiritual
and activity as of all life and activity upon means. Numerous ways have been prescribed for
the earth, but else because for me the body as the development of personality, but it can be
well as the mind and life are parts of the divine reckoned that the practice to instil holistic and
whole a form of the spirit and therefore not moral values into life has been unsurpassed.
to be disregarded or despised as something -Vaani Tandon, X A
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