Experience shows that man is like an innocent flower bud in his childhood. However, as he reaches the age of maturity, he develops various perversions in his personality—for example, stubbornness, egoism, defiance etc. To develop an actual personality, man needs to cleanse himself of such perversions. Personality development is done in two ways. A man should have either preserved his nature in which he was born, or the only other method is to remove the artificial layers that cover his personality until his true nature emerges in all its purity. It is in likeness to the way cattle chew the cud. Generally, people do not carry out this cleansing process. They pay the price in the form of carrying a negative personality hidden behind a civilised appearance. The negative personality is evil. Any man or woman who wants to save himself or herself from such a dreadful fate must adopt the above-mentioned corrective process in their daily life. Besides this, there is no other solution to this problem. This process of personality development along positive lines is not restricted to life in this world. It continues into the next, and this personality development on positive lines will enable us to find an entry into God’s eternal Paradise.
How to Develop a Spiritual Personality