Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise

only one life on Earth; we can grow a Heavenly crop or an infernal one for ourselves. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT The thoughts that come into man’s mind every day build his character. Positive thoughts create a positive personality. Negative thoughts create a negative personality. Experience tells us that a human being is the epitome of innocence as an infant. However, after growing up for years, different types of corruption creep into his personality and become part of his character. The question thus arises as to how one can develop or purify one’s personality or character. Personality or character development means preserving the same character that one had by birth. A person strives to remove the artificial curtains that later drape his character over time until his real nature, free of admixture, reemerges. The latter way of character development can be understood with the help of an example. Iron is a pure mineral. However, due to the impact of water, it becomes covered with rust. For iron, this rust is just an outer covering. The rust can be removed if scrubbed, and the iron can emerge in its original form. This phenomenon symbolically points to a psychological process. An individual does something terrible and then