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v)Engineering: The whole universe is engineered (planned or designed) by the Almighty. Looking at human person or even butterfly or a fly for that matter every minutest creature/thing is well designed and planned. Since we are part of this plan of the Almighty, we have to plan every thing and design in such a fashion that it yields expected results. This is what exactly meant by planning. Success is impossible without intelligent planning. Through meticulous planning one can foresee and overcome the obstacles. Planning gives us insight, clear thinking and perfection in action. It avoids chaos, confusion, worry, stress and strain. Planning in the field of Personality Development helps us to set an ideal goal, meaning and value to our life. Life is not accidental but purposive. This feeling of being valuable and purposive is the cornerstone of self discipline, because when one considers oneself valuable he will take care of oneself in all possible ways that are necessary.8 Hence planning paves way for self esteem and prompts us to achieve higher and higher goals. On the contrary, if we do not value our own life, we do not value others' lives also, and the result is an aggressive tendency which ends up with violence, terrorism and wars. Hence, planning is absolutely necessary not only for Personal Development but also for the development and protection of the entire world. 3. Principles of Personality Development:
Man's personality includes physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual dimensions. The spiritual element in man is something unique since all these physical, mental components can be objectified and all these i.e., body, senses, feelings etc. are objectively observed by It. That means, the spiritual element in man (Atman) is the witness and observing everything in man's personality (about which we the ordinary people are not aware of) but it is not perceived or witnessed by anything else. This is the Divine Consciousness and we are conscious of everything else because of It's presence. Amrithabindopanishat says: 'the divine consciousness resides in every being as ghee is in the milk" and Swami Vivekananda while endorsing this view says: "Each soul is potentially divine".10
A famous psychotherapist named Scott Peck while recognizing the spiritual element in man says: "Spiritual growth is the evolution of an individual. The ultimate goal of spiritual growth is for the individual to become as one with God. It is for the individual to become totally, wholly God."11 From this point of view we should not only give importance for the development of body-mind complex of us but at the same time transcend this bodymind organism and give more importance for the spiritual development, because, we can have greater strength and stability in our personality and greater mastery over ourselves if there is this Spiritual Development. Ken Wilber, another famous psychologist from the west, while analyzing the downfall of the western civilization says: "It is unfortunate that we in the
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| SR No. | 007005 |
| Book Title | World of Philosophy |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave |
| Publisher | Shanti Prakashan |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| Total Pages | 1002 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 30 MB |