Francis Dhuo
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Just as electrical energy produces heat, sound or light depending on the device through which it passes, similarly, the energy of consciousness functions through three different but closely connected entities, the mind, intellect and personality.With the power of the mind, one imagines, thinks and forms ideas. The non-physical mind should not be confused with the heart, the physical organ that maintains blood circulation.The intellect understands, reasons, memorizes, discriminates and makes decisions. The non–physical intellect should not be confused with the physical brain, which is the physical focus of the nervous system.Habits and sanskaras are all embedded in the soul in the form of impressions as a result of every action performed. The most fundamental feature of every soul, its personality, is determined by such stored impressions.Human achievement is like a mountain range with cliffs, peaks, slopes and valleys. To aim for excellence in collective achievement is to aspire (aim) to climb to the crowning point. The effort requires each climber to be equipped with essential skills and knowledge and good amounts of determination and will power. However, no climb should ever be undertaken without the most important piece of equipment: the safety rope of co-operation. Buddhi or Intellect is the faculty of reasoning, knowing, distinguishing, discriminating and drawing inference.Our mind always fluctuates. Though it fluctuates but it is very innovative and creative. It perceives everything through our sense organs like eyes, ears, tongue, skin and nose. Intellect is just like elder brother to guide the younger brother Mind. In perception the good and bad decision can be taken by mind if intellect is with it. If intellect completely surrenders to the soul, then all decision taken by the man will be good and correct. The soul is the vibrant energy which reflects itself towards the intellect, mind and body. If these three parts such as intellect, mind and body surrender themselves completely to the Soul then human being can be a complete one.The intellect which don’t surrender to the powerful soul and concentrate on the outside things like money, power and man, that intellect can’t use its power in right way. Intellect can either construct or destruct. The energy coming from the vibrant soul can be used in both right and wrong ways. Thus, as the intellect so the use of this energy.Proper guidance of the intellect can make a man a super human being. A super human being does the miracle by the dint of his high concentration of energy level. Scientists, writers, poets, artists, etc are not because of their genius. They are because of their higher mind under the control of this intellect. Higher minds are the creative minds that run themselves in a right and creative ways.He, who has no determination, is an idiot. The power to distinguish between and infer about the texture, characteristics and intentions of entities is buddhi.Buddhi is planning, decision making. The intellect is the faculty for knowing and reasoning. If you are deprivep of your intellect, you are deprived of your principle... your primary asset in life.Great things can be achieved using the intellect. One can achieve greatness... one can soar to the heavens.What you do not use, you lose. Do not let your intellect rust away through disuse. It would be like making an enemy out of your own intellect! Listen to your intellect, do what it says you must do. Enmity with your intellect mealls enmity with the good wishes of your own conscience. The development of the intellect involves expanding the horizons, increasing its efficiency and making use of the intellect at every opportunity.The more you use your intellect, the sharper it becomes. You learn the technique of using the intellect effectively by using it often. Contemplation and introspection are like food to the intellect. The more nutrition you will provide, the more it will grow. The busier the intellect becomes, the lesser it thinks about the body. To be sure it will think of the body to the extent of ensuring that its basic needs are satisfied. Food, shelter, clothing, fear and sex-these basic needs will be satisfied but not indulged in resulting in control and discipline leading to the decrease in the entanglement of the mind in sensual pleasures and materialistic desires. A virtuous cycle is created- fearlessness increases, the vital energy of the body increases, health, wealth and a healthy, pure mind results, leading to a sharper intellect and therefore increased astuteness and presence of mind.
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What is the difference between intellect and mind?
You begin to think before you speak and therefore you cut out unnecessary chatter. You speak less... you begin to understand the greatness of silence. You become content, the satisfaction you feel about life increases. To be sure, the feelings of discontent, dissatisfaction are the preserve of the mind, yet it is equally true that these can be controlled through the use of the intellect. The keener, sharper intellect can be used to develop a freer, clearer, cleaner mind. It can be used to increase concentration. This is how the intellect can be used to see things in the right perspective- objectively... in their true color and texture. Therefore it is that the buddhi is compared to sight or vision. Collect, process and store as much information as your intellect is capable of handling. In doing so, you increase the capability of your intellect. And the truth is that until and unless your intellectual capabilities increase, your view about life will not mature, you will not understand the true essence, the true import of being alive. If what you see, hear or read is not processed, understood and stored away quickly and efficiently or is willfully ignored, not only is the growth of the intellect stymied but your inherent intuitional and inspirational powers die out. This in turn is a great blow to the intellect. In this scenario, the interpretative and analytical powers are extinguished and the intellect becomes lethargic. This intellectual lethargy brings about dependency, loss of freedom and eventually intellectual bankruptcy. It follows that intellectual poverty brings with it financial poverty and consequently ill health. Thus use your intellect to the right extent and in the right manner and it will grow exponentially. A word of caution: do not let hate, revenge, jealousy and laziness entrap your intellect. The intellect thus entrapped by these vicious emotions expends itself in plotting and-planning its own downfall. This is a criminal waste of intellectual energy, which obviously now weakens and is destroyed. Along with itself it destroys your life. The intellect is a god-given gill, an elixir of life. Man dies every moment he lives; it is only through the use of his intellect that he can be alive each and every moment of his life.
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Development of Self-conscious Mind
The intellect is a weapon-sharp and lethal- use it to end, to subdue the mind. Once the mind ceases to exist, the intellect ends itself…the atman manifests itself. there have to be all the three enjoyments ... enjoyment of the body, enjoyment of the mind and enjoyment of the soul. When soul's enjoyment is missing from a person's life, what he lacks... is called as intellect.When a person has enjoyment... apart from the body, apart from the mind... of the soul too... what gets created is... intellect. This awakened atman becomes the savior of man and the universe. The intellect is its rapier. This is the greatness of the buddhitatva. Meditation is defined as stilling the mind's incessant waves.When the mind gets stilled, the soul becomes active to its own self.Stilling the mind ... and beginning to enjoy the soul... that is meditation.Through meditation... a new magnificence gets created... that is intellect.Once the intellect gets created, then enlightenment begins. Enlightenment is defined as... understanding one's own true multi-dimensional existence.As the intellect grows, enlightenment also becomes more.As there is more and more enlightenment... the capacity for enjoyment through the body, through the mind and through the soul... also becomes increasingly... more and more. The only difference between a man and an animal is the intellect.Please understand that an intellect is a powerful way to work out a solution permenantly. For instance, if he is poisoning your mind, keep a brave front to return the favor with a nectar of love. Initially, this will not be easy; but with an attitude of goodness in your mind, you can do it.
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What are human beings made of? (body, mind, intellect, soul)
Intellect plays a very important role in discriminating the correct from the wrong ones. What is right and what should be done – these are the things which can be concluded through the help of intellect.The most hazardous area of life is intellect, (again my intelect has decided this). Intellect tells what is right and what is wrong. It is the centre of physical manifestation of spirit. One who controls his or her intellect has to control nothing. Who one is winner of intellect is the Alexander of cosmos. There is nothing positive or negative, good or bad in the universe , it is our intellect who makes such partitions. When intellect works senses becomes unresting. The term samadhi means Sama= equal, Dhi= intellect, in this highest spiritual state one achieves equal intellect for good and bad. To control intellect one has to travel inward, in the brain, centre of intellect is kept opened by meditation.Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Rather, intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony,both intellectually and emotionally. There is a vast distinction between intellect and intelligence. Intellect is merely thought functioning independently of emotion. When intellect, irrespective of emotion, is trained in any particular direction, one may have great intellect, but one does not have intelligence, because in intelligence there is the inherent capacity to feel as well as to reason; in intelligence both capacities are equally present, intensely and harmoniously.Now modern education is developing the intellect, offering more and more explanations of life, more and more theories, without the harmonious quality of affection. Therefore we have developed cunning minds to escape from conflict; hence we are satisfied with explanations that scientists and philosophers give us. The mind, the intellect, is satisfied with these innumerable explanations, but intelligence is not, for to understand there must be complete unity of mind and heart in action. Until you really approach all of life with your intelligence, instead of merely with your intellect, no system in the world will save man from the ceaseless toil for bread. Intellect can come from within. It is just like a sixth sense, a premonition, a hunch and mind you this can work out as 100% correct. You can acquire a bit of this intellect by associating with great seers, men of wisdom, and spiritual people. Just attend their discourses, lectures and listen to their thoughts to let this intellect sink in. Intellect can also be learnt by an awareness technique. If you are aware of the happenings before it happens, then you can develop an excellent intellect to encounter that incident, which maybe good or bad. Consider, a tea-cup resting on an edge of a kitchen platform by someones's mistake. No sooner, you notice this, pick it up and place it further inside the platform. What have you done to the cup? You have aved it from toppling over and breaking into pieces. This way, always keep your mind alert for any expected evantuality. Now, you are using your intellect or wisdom for the greater good of evetrybody.The world is constantly in a flux of change, and so are you. Everything is changing, nothing is permanent. From birth till death, you grow older and older, childhood turns in to manhood and later into old age, and you get into profession or business. Along the course of your life, you must learn to navigate yourself through these changes to be happy, successful and peaceful. This art of navigating through all the challenges the world throws at you is called Self-Management. To learn this art, one needs a very strong and well-developed intellect. How much ever intelligence you may possess, it will not come to any use if you do not possess a powerful intellect. The intellect is the power to think, reason and judge freely without bias. As you develop your intellect, your thinking becomes clear, reasoning precise and you can judge perfectly. If you analyze the world carefully, the only living being that possesses an intellect is a human. All other creatures except humans are taken care of by nature. They are well programmed, they do not have a choice, a herbivore cannot become a carnivore and vice-versa. Only a human faces a dilemma of choice. The intellect plays an important role to choose the right course of action at every moment of life. Human beings accepted all routine practices set by their predecessors. They accept everything with very little thought or reason. They do not question or reason the authenticity of what they do and the procedures they adopt. They deny themselves the rightful choice of action. The problem is not what the choice you make but on what basis you make that choice. People across the world work on feeling and emotion rather than reason and judgement. People operate on the impulses of the mind neglecting the intellect. Emotions indeed must be a part of your life but they need not interfere with the reason and judgement of your intellect.
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Brain, Mind and Consciousness
The development of the intellect should have started from childhood. Children usually have the habit of enquiring and asking questions. As adults, parents must encourage this habit of children to ask questions, answer them logically and clear their doubts. These days the intellect is far from where it should have been developed. If you have not cultivated this habit from childhood, then you may start it now. Try questioning and reasoning every facet of your life. Don’t just accept anything just because it has been in practice for long, or your predecessors told you to do the same. Instead try to reason and find out why they must be saying or doing it. Intellectual development must commence at birth and cease at death. Intellect is not intelligence.Know very clearly the difference between intellect and intelligence. Intelligence is knowledge that can be easily grasped by your mind. Science, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Technology are all subjects which a highly intelligent person will easily understand. For instance, when a country loses a war, it is often said that there must have been an intelligence failure somewhere in the military. So intelligence means a mental ability to overcome a problem. But, intelligence does not solve the problem; it only closes the problem, just as you close a tap to stop the flow of water. Now, look at the intellect. Observe an eagle flying very high in the sky...... look at him study him, and think of him as to what he does. He is not just passing time flying; but trying to spot any moving object on the ground. This moving object might be his prey which he might be thinking of picking it up. How does he do it? He uses his instinct (or intellect) He calculates the height between him & his prey, his speed, his manourving style, and then he sweeps down, diving directly on his prey and catching it with his powerful claws and he rarely fails in his attempt. So, intellct is like wisdom or in Hindi, it is called "AKAL". Hence, anything, where a power of mind is invloved, then there has to be an intellect. So, intelligence is the ability to larn and intellect uses power of reasoning to find a permanent solution to a problem.Next, observe how a tiger stalks his hunt, before going for the kill. At a far off distance, he sees a flock of deer, grazing innocently in the grasslands. He keeps a watch over the head for sometime. He uses his power of mind(for animals, it is instinct) for a plan of action. He moves stealthily in the tall camaflouged grass, lying low and moving slowly on his stomach. His gaze is totally on the deer. He choses a marked target, maybe a mare or his offspring. When he is at a short distance away, he jumps into the air for a final assault. After folllowing it for some distance, he manages to pounce on it. His powerful jaws dig deep into the neck of the deer, the der struggles for sometime, before collapsing in his mouth. This animal has used his instinct as a form of intellect, as it is devoid of any intelligence as such. People all around the world feel that intelligence is intellect and they chase to acquire more & more degrees, qualifications. They blunder in engaging all their time merely acquiring Intelligence, and do not spend even little time in developing the intellect. Intelligence is acquired from schools & universities, teachers & textbooks, whereas the intellect can be built only by self effort by exercising the faculty of reason and judgment, by not accepting anything without logic and reason. Consider a computer having all the knowledge of fire extinguishers and firefighting. Yet, if the room catches fire, the computer cannot act though it has all the intelligence it needs, it shall perish in flames. Similarly, all the intelligence you acquire is of no use to you unless and until you have a strong intellect. This explains why among millions of engineers and doctors, only a handful of them have been able to build the super-computers, the palm islands and all life-saving drugs. All others are merely making a living on what these great engineers or doctors researched and invented. The world today is in a state of chaos due to perversion in human development – all intelligence and no intellect. This explains why great businessmen, professionals, scholars become alcoholics, rave with foul temper and are diseased with worry & anxiety. It is the mind that craves for, the mind that loses its temper; again the mind constantly worries or has anxieties. The frail intellect looks on helplessly as the mind devastates the person. The educational system is to be blamed. It is their responsibility to balance between acquiring intelligence and developing the intellect. Only by maintaining this essential balance, can governments be run, business houses be managed and families live in peace & harmony. The world today is in a terrible state. Nations indulge in hot & cold wars, business houses collapse and families are torn apart. Children with no direction are at sea. Confusion and chaos reigns everywhere.
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MIND, INTELLECT, EGO AND COSCIOUSNESS
Intelligence is built by accumulation of data from external factors whereas intellect uses intelligence to reason, choose and determine what one wishes to act upon. Intellect steps in to question the data collected by mind and apply reasoning, thinking to finally know, through its past awareness on any situation. This shows that any amount of intelligence will not give you access to intellect, which has a separate entry of its own. Intellect is an inborn attribute of your mind to decide between feeling and reasoning through the knowledge that you possess. There are very few, who after reading or hearing from top celebrities will ponder, question and argue, especially from celebrity sources, on the subject that they read. We are basically intelligent robots, products of blind beliefs, ranting forever the visionary ideologies of our scriptures and doctrines or experiences of others, without much bothering about its depth or purpose. Our country is in chaos today, primarily for this reason; Abundant intelligence with weak intellect. That is why we see so much of anxiety, fear and depression. It is because the mind is constantly and emotionally brooding on the past glories and dreaming anxiously into the future to fulfill what we desire. Nobody makes an effort to experience the depth and message of what Spiritualism declares; meditation is being mindful, in order to be able to live from one moment to the next in alertness, awareness and allness. When the intellect is weak, it helplessly allows the ego to be dependent in glorifying other’s experiences and achievements rather than own. Those with a high intellect, irrespective of their qualification, have their mind under control, directing their actions in consistency towards success. It is only through acquiring intelligence and exercising the intellect to question what you know that we achieve a required balance, where we may realize peace and prosperity. Besides intellect and intelligence, the mind, prior to deciding on any situation also goes through intuition and imagination finally culminating to integrity.
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Consciousness, Self, Mind and Soul
Intuition and imagination, though differing in their characteristics are both prior to those thoughts of going into past knowledge to achieve what it seeks for the future. Intuition is immediate in spontaneous awareness, hitting as a flash of energy, entering the mind without using any psychic processes. It always happens in the now, whereas in comparison, intellect is the power of reasoning borrowing intelligence to construct itself from past-accumulated data to judge and choose what it desires. Imagination on the other hand is fantasizing, how creative your mind can be, and if followed by intellect can bring that into realty. Intuition is far greater, the source or origin of cosmic energy, prior to anything in your mind. It is your third eye, your sixth sense or your fourth dimension. Like, seeing a person and knowing spontaneously a lot about him without requiring any psychic help. Integrity when applied physically or to objects refers to the wholeness or the purity of a thing. When concerning us, integrity becomes our code of conduct, revealing our totality of character. It reveals our overall quality in behavior, mannerisms and actions. At times it reveals our identity differently, say when faced with mistaken values, your integrity may speak otherwise. Like, if some people are chasing with the motive to kill innocent people in a riot, you tell a lie and show the wrong direction, in order to save the victim, even if you belong to the same group of chasers. Therefore, integrity involves various aspects; One of Self-integration, for moral purposes, maintaining your identity, as a virtue, physical wholeness or purity of any object or standing up to something that you feel is right.
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Emotions, Mind, and Ego
Why intellectual people look or sound different? It is because they are full of quest and short of time. They want to utilise their available time up to the highest extent. Whenever and where ever they get time, they go into thoughtfulness and the person in thoughts shall always be in his own world. This makes them depart from the existence. Such persons are not much in number, that is why they are uncommon.We always act on somebody’s thoughts. If some one says it is good. It is good for me also. Or I may be confused based on my false experience which was presented to me in a different way and say ‘no it is bad’. The bad and the good differs here on the basis of each individual. Both are false because they act on false knowledge. Some thing good should always be good to every one. Other wise it is false. Bad and good are relative. It differs from person to person.The highest treasure of human beings, distinct from other creatures, is their intellectual superiority. Had there been no intelligence in humans, they would hardly be different from other animals. This philosophical consciousness will lead humanity to greater intellectuality. And this constant pursuit of intellectuality leads one to its further limit, where intuition beings. Hence in the realm of intuitional practice it is tremendously helpful. This path of spiritual practice is not devoid of intellect or intuition, rather it is based on intuition. It has no scope for superstition or blind faith. It will facilitate the most all-round progress of humanity and manifest the highest human excellence. In the human world it is not physical strength but intellectual power that is victorious. The physical strength of elephant is very great, but a small man goads him with his intellectual power. It is happening in every field of the world. So when human beings entered the inner world, they found that their real wealth lay in increasing their psychic strength. And gradually, as their psychic strength increased, it came slowly into contact with spirituality. They found that behind their psychic power there was another power also working, due to which they attained psychic strength. Then human beings invented spiritual practices. They realized that the Supreme Consciousness is everything. Then the idea occurred in their minds, What a great deal of intellect He must possess, from whom they derived their intellect! So for evolution in the psychic level, they should think about Him----ideation on Him would increase their intellect. Then the Supreme Consciousness became the object of their minds. Unlike the animals, their minds started ideating upon the Supreme Consciousness. When intuition is developed, you become one with the Supreme Consciousness; you become omniscient, all –knowing----even you do not require any physical body. You need not go through so many books—the universe is within you, you are all knowing.
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Spiritual Intellect
Existence of a sound mind depends entirely upon possessing a spiritual intellect. A spiritual intellect as opposed to a worldly intellect. An intellect which is well matured in spiritual experience is called a spiritual intellect. An intellect which has no spiritual experience whatsoever is called worldly intellect. When we understand that … we are not just a physical system consisting of muscles and bones … but that we are a fundamental consciousness … then we understand we possess a spiritual intellect. When we understand that we are only on a temporary journey on the Space-Ship Earth, then we understand we possess a spiritual intellect. When we understand that we have no right whatsoever in interfering in other’s personal lives, or in any way to judge others, then we understand we possess a spiritual intellect. When we understand that we alone are responsible for creating our respective realities … in all circumstances … then alone, we can claim we possess a spiritual intellect. When we truly understand that we give unto others comes back multiplied, in the same kind, then alone, we understand we possess a spiritual intellect. Every mind should be a sound mind. For that every intellect should become a spiritual intellect.When we are with the cosmic self, abundant cosmic energy flows into the physical system, of muscles and bones and all the flaws in the physical system get washed … and all diseases are completely healed.
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Beyond Thought and Intellect
When we contact the world, three distinct transactions take place: Receipt of stimuli from the world, reaction within your personality and response to the world. Stimuli from the world reach you through your organs of perception. Colour and form enter through your eyes, sound through ears, smell through nose, taste through tongue and touch through skin. Having entered therein the stimuli react with your mind and intellect. The type of reaction that will set in will depend upon the type of stimulus contacted and the nature of the mind and intellect reacting with it. Consequent to the reaction your mind and intellect send out responses back into the world through your organs of action. Take for example your present experience of reading this. Your eyes are taking in the stimuli in the form of letters and words. These stimuli reach your mind and intellect. A reaction sets in. It generates a particular type of feeling and judgement depending upon the quality and texture of your mind and intellect. To some, what is generated may be favourable and they will respond positively, continuing the study. To others the reaction may be unfavourable; they will respond negatively and discontinue the study. The three transactions - receipt, reaction and response -- are constantly taking place in your life. The human system and mechanism resemble the working of a factory. In a manufacturing process also there are three main operations. Raw material is fed into the factory at one end. The material is processed by machines. The manufactured products are drawn out and despatched at the other end. For best results all three operations have to be perfected. Raw material taken in must be of good quality. Machines tuned up and operated properly. End products tested to meet requirements standards. So also the three transactions of life have to be regulated properly to ensure blissful existence in this world. You are aware that your sense organs constantly perceive sense objects of the world. All sorts of stimuli reach your personality. Check their quality. Avoid inflow of impure and unhealthy stimuli; they create mental agitations. They are germs which cause psychological diseases. Examine the type of sights that your eyes see, the food that your tongue tastes. . . Control and regulate your perceptions to ensure inflow of pure and healthy stimuli. Having controlled your perceptions you must next examine the reactions taking place in you. You may regulate and receive healthy stimuli and yet they may produce unhealthy reactions like jealousy, greed and lust. These reactions are inevitable as they depend upon the nature of your existing mind and intellect. There are two ways of controlling the reactions. The initial and temporary way is to become aware of them and check their effects from spreading further. A permanent control is achieved by rehabilitating your mind and intellect. Vedanta helps you to exercise both controls. The third transaction is the response transmitted by your mind and intellect through the organs of action. Examine the quality of actions perpetrated by your body. If the actions are selfish and self-centred, they tell upon your life. They agitate your mind; they make you unhappy.
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Consciousness, Self, Mind and Soul
Everyone was included from the most gifted to the least endowed There were no qualifying exams, no grades to be sought, and no heartbreak over not having obtained the minimum marks The pathway to excellence was simple We have two distinct entities: the mind and the intellect The mind is the realm of emotions, impulses, likes and dislikes The intellect is the rational, discriminating faculty The intellect judges, discerns and distinguishes between pairs of opposites Our actions can be driven by.whims and fancies of the mind or by the clear counsel of the intellect. Impulse-led actions are weak; they lead to failure Actions propelled by the intellect take one to success Often the mind and intellect point in different directions The mind might go for instant gratification The intellect might prefer short-term pain for long-term gain Whenever there is conflict between the two it is the intellect that ought to prevail Everyone is born with a distinct talent or gift Zero in on this inner calling, your svadharma Within the area of your core interest fix an.ideal, one that soars above personal, self-centred interests and includes the well-being of society. This shift in attitude changes your life from drudgery to revelry, from indignation to inspiration The higher the ideal, the greater is the enthusiasm and creativity An attitude of Whats in it for me must be replaced by an irresistible urge to serve, sacrifice, and help It is a myth to believe that you can succeed or be happy through selfishness When Mohandas Gandhi set aside his legal practice for service of the people he had no idea he would be regarded as a mahatma When Muhammad Yunus.established Grameen Bank for the poor women in Bangladesh he had no clue that he would become world-famous and be awarded a Nobel Prize. Devotion comes next Love what you do Embrace all with a sense of oneness, not otherness When you place a mirror before a monkey it sees a competitor, not its own image It lashes out at the mirror You, on the other hand, see yourself in the mirror and preen before it You admire yourself with great joy and satisfaction So see yourself in fellow beings Exult in the feeling of oneness This cleanses you of all hatred and malice It empowers you Your focus must shift to that which is permanent Then.the ephemeral aspects of life cease to traumatise you. The intellect is developed through your individual effort by exercising the faculty of questioning, thinking and reasoning. Not accepting anything that does not admit logic or reason. Know the difference between the two. And that any amount of intelligence gained cannot per se build your intellect. The intelligence acquired from external agencies is much like data fed into a computer. Consider, a computer charged with a complete knowledge of fire extinguishers, firefighting and fire escapes. All the knowledge stored in its memory cannot help the computer act on its own. If the room catches fire, it cannot escape. It will go up in flames. Likewise, all the knowledge you acquire is of no use to you without an intellect. You need a powerful intellect to put the knowledge, intelligence gained, to practical use in life. That explains why among millions of doctors graduating from medical schools only a few have discovered life-saving drugs and surgeries, finding cures and remedies. So too, millions of engineers have passed out of engineering schools but only few design something unusual like the Panama Canal or Eurotunnel. It is their intellect that renders their performance outstanding. Besides hindering success and progress, intelligence without intellect could destroy peace and happiness in the world.Not realising the importance of the intellect in life people make no attempt to develop their own. Instead, they merely indulge in acquiring intelligence through surface reading of others’ periodicals and publications.
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Do you know who God is ?
Few go into the depth of any literature. Education has lost its meaning and purpose. For generations human beings have turned into intelligent robots and are traversing through life without awareness, much less enquiring into the meaning and purpose of life.The world today is in a state of chaos due to the perversion in human development − all intelligence and no intellect. That explains why even highly educated businesspersons, professionals and scholars become alcoholics, are short tempered and succumb to worry and anxiety. It is the mind that craves alcohol. It is the mind that loses its temper. Again, it is the mind that constantly harbours worry of the past and anxiety for the future. When the intellect remains undeveloped and weak, it is unable to control the vagaries of the mind. The frail intellect looks on helplessly as the mind devastates the person. In such a condition the business, profession and even family relationship run into shambles. On the contrary those having developed a powerful intellect, with or without academic distinction, can hold the mind under perfect control and direct action to spell success and peace in life.The educational systems the world over must be held responsible for the debacle of the intellect. Atman, the soul, and Brahmn, the Paramatman, exist. Only those who have never tried to understand anything beyond the sensually perceivable world may say, “If God exists, why can’t we see Him?” A material-minded person may ask, “Can you show me God?” Such a question may make a learned person laugh but this does not answer the question. So it is necessary to say that the answer to the question must be in the code and language consonant with the nature of the subject. So says Yama, to Nachiketa. The Supreme Self lies hidden deep within every object. It is impossible for crude organs to see or understand this deeply covered Entity. Take ether for instance. Akáshatattva or ether lies hidden in the molecules and atoms of every object. Do you see it with your crude eyes or can you feel its existence through any of your organs? Now an ignorant person may ask a scientist, “You say there is ether; then show me. He needs to be guided and directed to the appropriate state of understanding its existence. Only then will he accept the existence of ether. Brahmatattva or the spiritual principle is an extremely subtle principle. So to understand or know Him certainly calls for a very subtle, sagacious and sharp intellect. Scriptures call it Agryábuddhi or pointed intellect. Yama, the mythological God of Death; philosophically, the Controller, has said that this truth can only be experienced through pointed intellect. No other bearing can comprehend it. That is why the deeply covered Supreme Being is not equally reflected on all minds, despite the fact that He is present in all entities and is indeed the essence of every entity. It is only when the mental mirror becomes pure with the help of agryábuddhi that the Supreme Entity is properly revealed. This spiritual principle is beyond the comprehension of the crude organs like the eyes. The power of the optic nerves or of any organ to apprehend tanmátras or inferences is very limited.
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Beyond Thought and Intellect
Take for instance a molecule or atom of the physical world, which people can easily comprehend with a little mental effort, but which their eyes are unable to see through the media of form tanmátras. In order to see or feel them they will have to take the help of a special kind of instrument, and to learn how to use it they will require laboratory training. In order to realise the all-encompassing subtle principle of Brahmn also, you will have to focus your mind introspectively in accordance with a special method by doing regular experiments yourself. One cannot attain Brahmn through arguments and reasoning, based on opinions of different authors, or by opening study circles, or through speeches and lectures. For this you will have to develop your agryábuddhi with complete devotion and zeal. Then only you will realise Him with your entire being. Crude intellect is sufficient for comprehension of crude objects, but not to enter the domain of subtlety; for that it has to be refined into a subtler one. To understand the subtlest Entity it has to be made extremely subtle and sharp like the point of a needle; all desires and propensities have to be centralised on a point – this is what is known as the agryábuddhi. The entity that then remains as the witness of that state of mental suspension, the Átman, is the characteristic Self of the unit. The Witnessing Force behind the state of mental suspension is the Átman.You are an actor in the drama of life. Play your role wholeheartedly, dispassionately, perfectly and exit gracefully when the time comes. Don’t get entangled in a make-believe world. Atman, the spirit, is completely objective. It enables all your activities but has nothing to do with their functioning. Just as fuel propels all cars to move but does not determine their performance. Electricity is the same in all gadgets but is not responsible for manifestations. At Kurukshetra, Arjuna is overwhelmed by emotion. Grief-stricken, he refuses to perform his duty. He asks Krishna, his friend and mentor, for help. Krishna’s opening remarks in the Bhagwad Gita are,“The wise do not grieve either for the living or the dead. All grief is because of wrong identification and attachment”. You believe that the cause of your misery is out there in the world. You blame the spouse, kids, the government and even the weather for your unhappiness. As long as you believe the world is causing you sorrow, there will never be a solution to your problems. You are responsible for your sorrow. As long as you identify with the body, mind and intellect, you will be unhappy. These instruments are matter as world is also matter. Matter affects matter, just as magnet attracts iron. You are neither body, mind nor intellect; you are spirit. The world does not have the power to affect the spirit but you think it does because of your involvement with body, mind and intellect. Just remember you are atman and interact with body, mind and intellect. Then you will remain a sakshi, witness, of everything but never get involved. You go through three states of consciousness – waking, dream and deep sleep – all projections of your mind. The real you is atman, the fourth state. Live life as if you are re-entering a dream, knowing its illusory nature, tongue-in-cheek, objectively, joyfully. Do what you have to do, without involvement, entanglement or heartburn. Objectivity is the secret of enjoyment. You are able to enjoy a tragic movie because you know you are not a part of it. Had you been even remotely connected with the happenings in the movie you would suffer. Practise objectivity by observing the world around you. Observe external objects, people around you, their appearance, emotions, and thoughts. Then shift your attention to your own body, mind and intellect. You will be in an oasis of peace and tranquillity in the midst of turbulence around. The mind is the realm of emotions and feelings; the intellect is of reason, discrimination and judgement. The mind is involved, attached and partisan. The intellect is capable of remaining objective, unbiased and unprejudiced. Use your intellect, strengthen it so you are objective in all situations. From such an impersonal viewpoint, you will find life entertaining.
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God and Intellect
God was born out of the interface between man's intellect and its limitations, forcing the intellect to surrender to faith.But can faith ever be challenged by intellect? Ego is a sense of doer-ship. Every action is purported with a presumed control of the outcome. If the outcome is on expected lines, it gratifies the ego, and reinforces the sense of doer-ship . If the outcome is unfavourable, the ego gets slighted. The unfavourable outcome questions the scope or influence of the doer. The intellect cannot accept the arbitrary nature of outcomes or events. Failure to predict the outcome of any endeavour exposes the limitation of its control. This limitation is then assigned various nomenclatures such as destiny, luck, and karma. The futility of analytical thought also coerces the ego to seek recourse in an abstraction called God. God was born out of the interface between man’s intellect and its limitations. History is also testimony to the then incomprehensible phenomena like lightning being interpreted as events orchestrated by celestial powers. The influence of God gradually invaded a wider perimeter of life. God became a convenient instrument of ensuring a code of ethics in the social fabric. The limitation of comprehension continued to remain the substrate of belief in God. Belief began where intellect ended. So did the abstraction called God. Belief and intellect are strange bedfellows. Belief is necessarily ipso facto. It cannot forge an alliance with any rational thought. Each culture proclaimed its own messiah and advocated its own doctrines not always based on sanction or rationality. Rather, every unique interpretation of this abstraction cleaved society. The abstract caught the imagination of the intellect and forced it to surrender to faith. Faith could never be challenged by intellect. Faith became a cornerstone to make the vagaries of life palatable. It also provided a resting ground for the intellectual juggernaut. Faith surreptitiously clouded rational intellect to a point of self-destruction . It transformed abstraction to aberration. The gaps in our understanding apparently decreased with the advent and progress of science. But scientific progress never eliminated the gaps completely. Rather, it made the conundrum of Creation even more bizarre. The phenomenon of lightning was explained by modern science. But this puzzle was replaced by the dilemma over the nature of light which still remains unexplained. Is light a particle or wave? The deficiency in intellectual comprehension only modified itself, from the macro to the nano. The unpredictable nature of the subatomic world continues to perplex even the sharpest of intellectuals. Belief, nonetheless, could not restrain the intellect to seek answers. Ironically, the intellect continued seeking answers for what it had earlier relegated to the realm of incomprehensibility. The intellect started seeking answers for what had been its nemesis, namely, God. What symbolised its own failure became a subject of its study. Before attempting to comprehend God, it was vital to first comprehend the Self. A student of science could study any subject but would be incapable of making the Self a subject of its own study. Experiment can never investigate the Self, which is an experience of awareness. Experience transcended intelligence. A paradigm shift is needed to be able to comprehend the abstraction that we call God. This could be made possible when we move from the ambit of experiment to experience. It will require sublimation of intellectual faculties to a point of heightened awareness, elevating awareness to become all-encompassing and all-inclusive that would end the subject-object dichotomy. The only way to understand God would be to become one.
Nini Maana ya 'Mind' kwa Kiswahili (Kwa neno moja) naamini aliamini kabisa kuna watakaokuja na maelezoMind
Umeeleza vizuri,MIND na INTELLECT YANA MAANA TOFAUTI LAKINI KUTOKANA NA LUGHA YA KISWAHILI KUTOKUJITOSHELEZA BASI YOTE MAWILI YANAITWA "AKILI"
MIND IS REACTIVE, KWA WATU WANAOTUMIA MIND WAKIDHANI NI AKILI AU FIKRA BASI WANAPOTEA KWA SABABU MIND HUONGOZWA NA ZILE FIVE SENSES, MFANO MZURI NI PALE UNAPOGUSA BILA KUJUA KAA LA MOTO, UNAONGOZWA NA SENSES KUTOA MKONO HARAKA-HAPA HUTUMII INTELLECT BALI UNATUMIA MIND (REACTIVE)
WATU WANAOTUMIA MIND KATIKA MAMBO MBALIMBALI WANA TABIA ZIFUATAZO;
1. WEPESI WA KU-PANIC
2. MARA NYINGI HUTUMIA QUICK LOGIC KUPATA MAJIBU KUHUSU JAMBO LINAPOTOKEA NA HII NI KUTOKANA NA UKWELI KUWA HAWATUMII SLOW LOGIC KATIKA KUFIKIRI, MWISHO WA SIKU HUKUMBWA NA MAJANGA.
3. NI WEPESI WA KUKASIRIKA HATA KAMA JAMBO NI DOGO SANA, HUWAWI SANA KUVURUGIKIWA AKILI HASA LINAPOTOKEA TATIZO KWA AJILI YA KUTATUA.
HAYO YOTE YANATOKANA NA SABABU MOJA TU KUWA MIND IMEEGEMEA KATIKA 5 SENSES KUJIENDESHA.
KWA KIFUPI MIND NI REACTIVE KULIKO KAWAIDA, UNAWEZA KUUA MTU KWA SABABU YA PANICKING. MTU AKIKUKANYAGA TU BILA KUKUSUDIA, KWA SABABU UNAONHOZWA NA MHEMKO UNAOSABABISHWA NA ZILE 5 SENSES BASI UNAWEZA KUMLIMA BANZI MTU
INTELECT IS THOUGHTFUL
KWA WALE WANAOTUMIA AKILI, HUTUMIA SLOW LOGIC KATIKA KUTATUA MATATIZO HASA YANAPOTOKEA, MTU ANAPOKUMBWA NA TATIZO HUTULIA NA KUFUATA HATUA FULANI HADI KUFIKIA KWENYE UTATUZI, MTU ANAYETUMIA INTELLECT MARA NYINGI HUPENDA KUJIRIDHISHA KWANZA NDIPO AFANYE UAMZI, NADHANI HII INAJIDHIHIRISHA KWA WATU WOTE UNAOWAJUA AMBAO WALIKUWA SMART KIMASOMO DARASANI, HUWA HAWANA PAPARA KATIKA JAMBO LOLOTE, HAO HUONGOZWA NA AKILI.
LUGHA YETU YA KISWAHILI HAIJITOSHELEZI VIZURI NDIYO MAANA MIND KWA KISWAHILI INAITWA AKILI, LAKINI PIA INTELLECT NAYO KWA KISWAHILI INAITWA AKILI.
KATIKA LUGHA YA KIINGEREZA MIND NA INTELLECT NI MANENO MAWILI TOFAUTI HASA KATIKA MATUMIZI YAKE.
JE, WEWE UNATUMIA NINI?