Seek the Eternal World
English book, p. 134
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The true purpose of man’s personality development is that he should decondition his mind. He should find his every weakness and negativity, remove them from himself, and purify himself to convert his negative personality into a positive one. Every negative trait can be converted into its opposite, positive form. For example, one should transform anger into forgiveness, hatred into love, greed into selflessness, pride into humility, non-acknowledgement into acknowledgement, violence into gentleness, egoism into modesty, and so on. Spirituality is the name for this conscious process of inner purification. In other words, spirituality is a process of deconditioning. The purpose of spirituality is that man should engage in the process of self-construction and, in this way, decondition himself. He should make himself a person free from every conditioning. He should, once again, regain the natural state that he was born with. This aim of spirituality has always been there before people. Those who made spirituality their purpose have always stressed that their aim is purification and reform. They want to transform their inner personality into a purified personality. They seek to lift themselves from being someone who may be filled with base emotions into a being that lives in noble feelings. However, history tells us that man could never attain this spiritual goal through mystical practices, that these practices could not produce a spiritual man. In fact, what is commonly thought of as spiritual ‘attainment’ from the

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