PERSONALITY

The word “Personality” comes from a Greek word “Persona” which means, “mask.” “Persona” was used in play by Greek Stage Players to present them, as they wanted to be. Hence, here we come to know that whatever is presented by us is only our personality.

According to the Cambridge International Dictionary of English your personality is the type of person you are, which is shown by the way you behaved, feed, and think.

“Personality,” according to the Longman Dictionary of contemporary English, is the whole nature or character of a person.

How a person behaves, feels, and thinks, how he conducts himself in a given set of circumstances is largely determined by the state of his mind. When we sit for a few minutes trying to pray or think of a divine name or form, our mind start wondering, thinking about some past event or some plans.

Swami Vivekananda once said: Free! We who cannot for a moment govern our own mind, cannot hold our minds on a subject, and focus it on a point to the exclusion of everything else for a moment! Yet we call over selves free. According to the Bhagawad Gita, the indiscipline mind acts as our enemy, whereas a trained main acts as our friend too. Therefore, we need to have a clear idea of the mechanism of our mind, as it will contribute to the under-development our personality.

The following famous quotation of Swami Vivekananda can be our mantra for Personality development. “Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest his divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal” and “Strengthening of will power is the essence of Personality development.” Faith in oneself, positive thoughts, attributes towards failure and mistakes, self-reliance, Ruination, and service are some essential qualities for Personality development. Therefore, if want to develop our Personality. We must furnish our behaviour first and should have above-mentioned qualities.