Do we experience higher spiritual states through the intelligence?
Is it that when we start practicing bhakti and when we come to the level of contact with Krishna the intelligence is what the way we experience Krishna and the mind interferes but then the intelligence says no to the mind yeah that's true see in the Bhagavad Gita also it is said so that actually it is experienced through buddhi that which is beyond the senses so what this means is that if you consider this is the physical level, this is the mental level this is the intellectual level or rather not levels you could say this is the senses, this is the mind this is the intelligence, this is the soul this is the super soul you consider phi like this now like earlier I said when there is a pure devotee the soul is connected with the super soul directly by priti by affection the soul is connected with the super soul because of affection now in our case here there are the senses, you can say there are the sense objects so we are dragged downwards from the senses to the sense objects and then the mind also gets attracted to the sense objects and the intelligence also gets pulled down so when we start practicing bhakti and we start experiencing Krishna now at the very advanced stage we are experiencing Krishna constantly at the sadhaka stage as we become purified we experience Krishna more and more but it is not that we are experiencing Krishna constantly there is intermittent experiences so at that time so this connection, so for the sadhaka for the siddha there is a direct connection between the soul and the super soul but for us the connection is like this the connection is through the intelligence we connect with Krishna that means through the intelligence I commit myself, this is what I am going to do so that's what it means because our consciousness doesn't focus on Krishna steadily so it is only through the intelligence that we are able to focus the consciousness and that's why I said through the intelligence we experience Krishna it is the soul only who is experiencing Krishna but it is through the intelligence so intelligence becomes the channel by which the soul connects with Krishna and then the mind is pulling down pulling down so now I'll just use the English words and I'll talk about Sanskrit concepts see there is conviction and there is realization conviction is of the intelligence I study the philosophy, I analyze and I am convinced there is only things that don't give happiness so I am intellectually convinced but that does not mean that the mind has accepted it the mind is still going to propose so it's like a simple example you know say if you go out on the roads there are billboards buy this, buy this, buy this or in the TV there are commercials buy this, buy this so say now we become convinced that okay I am not going to say they are advertising a new car I am not going to buy a new car now just because I have decided not to buy a new car that does not mean the advertisers are going to stop advertising the car even if I decide I am not going to buy the advertisers are going to stop continue advertising so it's like the mind is like Maya's internal advertising agent the mind is Maya's internal advertising agent so even when say with my intelligence I am convinced no I am not going to do this but even when I am convinced that to not buy something the mind is not going to stop promoting it, the mind is not going to stop advertising it, so that means with the intelligence I know I don't want to do this, I have decided not to do it but still the mind keeps proposing still the mind keeps proposing, come on do it do it, so the conviction is what enables us to say no to the mind but as we keep practicing bhakti more and more then the mind itself stops proposing so when the when the mind itself stops proposing actually at one level that is the realization so then the mind itself doesn't say say for example some of us might have been eating meat before we came to bhakti now if we see somebody eating say we are travelling in a plane and we see somebody else eating meat now most almost nobody is actually attracted to eat meat, prasadam is literally a higher taste so what has happened the mind has stopped proposing itself so actually when that happens so when the mind stops proposing then bhakti becomes joyful as long as the mind keeps proposing come on do this, do this, do this we have to keep saying no to it and that's why the process of bhakti may not be that joyful there is joyfulness when we connect with Krishna but when the mind starts proposing do this and we think maybe no, yes, no, maybe later just thinking so we are distracted from Krishna at that time but gradually when the mind itself says there is no pleasure and the mind stops proposing so then what happens is bhakti becomes very joyful because there is no distraction coming from within itself that's why there is mind control and there is mind conversion we have to control the mind as we are practicing bhakti and that requires the intelligence but by the study practice of bhakti the mind itself gets converted converted means the mind itself eventually starts becoming attracted to Krishna or doesn't get so attracted to worldly things and that is the stage when the mind becomes a friend so that takes a long time that's why it is primarily right now we have to connect with Krishna through the intelligence and we experience Krishna primarily through the intelligence yes.