Q: Master, what is the relationship between enlightenment and personality development?🔗

Enlightenment is not about developing your personality; it is about dropping your personality. What is personality development? A bunch of thoughts that provide clicks, or shifts in our thought pattern, so that our so-called problems disappear. Those 'self-help' thoughts will be alive only for a few days. Visualization and positive thinking hold power only for a few days. These may provide temporary development but never a permanent solution. Only an enlightened master can continuously provide clicks and initiations to solve your problems. Not only that, a master continues to support you even after the clicks stop working.

A person who solves your problems even when the clicks stop working is an enlightened person.

Any book with a click will be a best seller. However, providing clicks with promises that work only in the short term is destructive. When the clicks stop working, people suspect themselves to be inadequate. They don't suspect the person who provided the clicks. They consider themselves to be at fault and to be failures.

This is the real danger of swallowing material provided by unenlightened people, dressed in the garb of Self-help gurus. You fall into the danger of suspecting your own capability. The struggle to make an unworkable click function as a transformation technique becomes a rigorous practice, a sadhana. This is one sadhana that cannot succeed.