In the conflict between the mind and the intelligence, who decides?
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so when there is a fight between mind and intelligence who decides see the soul is the ultimate decision maker always because the soul is the source of consciousness soul is the active agent just like say sometimes just to give a simple example there is a pop up that comes up while I am browsing the website some pop up comes up and then I see some attractive image something seems interesting and I start going there and at the same time some warning comes up this website is not safe so now basically what is happening both the things are coming from the software of the computer only so one is prompting us to go somewhere other is cautioning us don’t go there so in a rough sense I can say that that is prompting me to go in a particular direction of the mind that is cautioning don’t go there that is intelligence but it is I who chooses so like that the mind’s voice is there telling us do something the intelligence is telling don’t do it so now quite often one voice may be louder than the other voice but it is we who ultimately decide it is ultimately we who choose they just give options yeah they both give options and we decide based on our consciousness yeah you could say based on our consciousness if we are in rajoguna tamoguna we will most likely choose the mind if in sattvaguna we will choose the intelligence but it also depends on whose voice we hear more because how it is in these cases both the mind and the intelligence what empowers them is consciousness it’s like if I press a particular button then that window opens up bigger and bigger like that so like that the more I listen to the mind the mind’s voice becomes bigger and bigger the more I listen to the intelligence the intelligence voice becomes bigger and bigger so that also shapes so we choose not only whom we listen to or whose we can say whom we listen to in two senses one is whose action we do and whose words we hear so based on whose words we hear then what happens is that voice becomes louder and louder and that drowns out the other voice and then we do that action so that’s why if we are hearing scripture regularly studying shastra diligently then that keeps the intelligence active sometimes what happens is although the mind and intelligence are there the mind attacks so fast that even before the intelligence can spring into action we have done something already so if we are hearing scripture regularly then the intelligence also becomes alert as soon as the mind starts speaking the intelligence is also there sometimes you know suppose there is a security guard who is supposed to protect a shop but the security guard is sleeping the thief comes and steals and goes by and then the security guard wakes up but if the security guard is awake then they can stop the thief so the intelligence is alert then it’s easier