​Who is a sthita–prajna?

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What about Sita Prajna? Sita Prajna is basically a person whose intelligence is fixed.
That means Prajna is intelligence, Sita is fixed. So presently our intelligence itself is fickle. Sometimes we feel this is good, sometimes we feel that is good.
And not only we feel, after feeling we rationalize. Rationalize means once I start thinking this is right, I justify that. So once there was an anti-alcoholic campaigner.
He came and he said that I will demonstrate to people how drinking is dangerous. So he had brought a glass or transparent bottle in which he had some alcohol. And he had brought a small box and there was an insect, a fly.
So he opened that box and put that fly inside that bottle. And the fly fluttered and in a few moments it sank down. Dead end.
He said what do you learn from this? All of them started looking down. One of them was very cheerful. I said what do you learn from this? He said when we drink alcohol all the germs in our stomach will die.
So what has happened here? The intelligence is being used to rationalize the desire. So when this happens then rather than the intelligence helping us make wise choices, the intelligence is used to justify the unwise choices. So when we say at present that’s what happens with our intelligence sometimes.
So when we study the Bhagavad Gita’s wisdom then our intelligence becomes strong. And even if the mind pulls in that direction, the intelligence will fade. We can stay fixed in the right choice.