Normally we would answer that one's behavior or deeds would testify about how much someone is righteous or not, but modern Kabbalah has another answer to this question.
Rav Yehuda Ashlag revealed, that not necessarily our deeds would prove if we're righteous or not, but how we perceive the world outside of us. If we see only the bad in people it means we're not corrected yet. But if someone sees only good and perfect people outside oneself it means, that we ourselves have reached perfection.
This is a difficult concept to grasp, because most people that would call themselves spiritual would mean that it would be the opposite. But there are generally three stages of seeing the world.
In the first stage we may exist only in our ego and are maybe blind to the evil surrounding us. We may as so many blindfold people think we could create paradise through our own selfishness. That this world would be the only thing existent. We walk through life with rose colored glasses.
Step 2 is that I awake spiritually. And of course when I get more aware about myself I also get more aware about others, especially their mistakes and flaws. And it could be of course that I'm absolutely right in my perception, but must people on the path get stuck there, remaining in a feeling of self-righteousness and pointing the fingers only on others and their corruptions and flaws.
The third stage is, when I reach enlightenment and begin to see, that my own interior and the exterior of the world equal each other like two drops of water. Instead of concentrating always on the shortcomings of others I most of the time concentrate only on their spark of light they carry and their good character traits. And this means to have reached righteousness, to see most of the time only a perfect world outside myself, even when my five senses tell me different things. Because I know with my consciousness exist already in the perfect timeless world of absolute perfection — the reality of the tree of life.
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