Come
summer there is a plethora of Personality Development Camps. Each
organization conducts programmes which they think are best to expand the
personality of the candidates. Pondering over that, we came across four
formulae from our treasure house of spiritual heritage to help
Personality Development of an individual.
Chidlren usually think that eating good food, putting on weight, wearing
good dress and ornaments are all ways of developing their personality.
This has to be modified with a new programme. Our great rishis with
their deep in-sight into the personality of the human beings have given
us these formule for a wholesome expansion of the human being.
Sareeramadhyam khalu dharma sadhanam
”Children should be made to understand the glorious idea of making use
of the body as an instrument to carryout Dharma. Truth must blossom into
dharma through their lives. So all those activities centred on Truth
like recognising others as our own, serving them, giving up selfish
desires and motivations, carrying out activities for the propagation of
good, etc. can be brought under dharmic activities which will bring
spiritual strength and vigour to the body. Our youth are totally unaware
of this blissful expansion which they can effortlessly achieve.
Vasudhaiva kutumbakam
The above concept centered in the awareness of one Truth, visualizing
the whole Universe as one’s family leads to an unparalleled expansion
of human mind which provides a homely remedy for all the ills which are
creeping into one’s mind spoiling our interrelationships with people and
the environment.
The statement says that ‘the whole universe is one family’. The welfare
of the family rests on the proper exercise of the right sand
responsibilities by all its members individually and collectively.
Respect, regard, love,sacrifice, service – manifold are the expressions
through which those rights and responsibilities are exercised in real
life. In the togetherness,mutuality, each member responsibly carrying
out one’s duties remaining as part of the whole and ever keeping at bay
his individualistic egotism, lie the wholesomeness of a family. To get
at this magnificent cohesiveness what else, but the awareness of the
spiritual solidity of the whole, could be the basis?
This formula works at the mental level and is the most important factor
in deciding the total health of a person including his out-look on life.
Here the mind is made to expand absorbing unto itself everything around
with a feeling of one’s own. This helps to eliminate all the negative
vibrations and bad qualities like jealousy, hatred, etc. from the mind
which obstruct the expansion of one’s personality. With such an
expansion one finds the whole universe as one’s friend aiding and
also bestowing blessings. Peace, happiness, achievements are all
by-products of one’s attunement with the cosmos.
Unity in Diversity
The third level of expansion concerns the intellect which is presently
used by us togather only information for achieving material benefits
like name, power and pelf etc. Intellect should be used for better
purposes,to detect the Infinite in the finite, to see God in everything,
living and non living.
To see Unity in diversity is the formula ideally suited for this
expansion in our under-standing at the intellectual level. That
automatically keeps one aligned on the path of seeking Truth. Intellect
becomes subtler and sharper and it starts, like a torch light, revealing
knowledge deeply hidden or long for-gotten in the depths of our being.
Each soul is potentially divine
Last but not the least guidance for expansion comes
from Swami Vivekananda’s famous observation “Each soul is potentially
divine”. This is the ultimate source of knowledge and energy which can
illumine all the layers of human personality from body to the Self
within. This formula brings into the grasp of every human being that he
is Divine and the goal in his life is to manifest that divinity. This
can be done only by controlling nature external and internal and the
first three formulae are ideally suited to bring about the control of
nature external and internal which in turn leads to real expansion
of the human personality. Such an expanded personality is a blessing
unto himself as also to the whole world.
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