How can we know whether the inner voice comes from the mind or the intelligence?

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ok so when the inner voice comes how do we know whether that is the mind’s voice or the soul’s voice or whoever it is yes, two things are there first of all that we all know our weaknesses so if I have a tendency to waste time on social media if I have a tendency to waste time doing some activity which we know is not very good for us and if a voice tells us do that we should know by default that is the mind’s voice it’s not that the mind has the mind tricks us in unlimitedly new ways the mind can do that but usually the mind has some fairly standard ways in which it keeps tricking us again and again may be over eat, may be over sleep may be waste your time too much in this, waste your time too much in that so if we know our weaknesses in advance and it’s not very difficult, if we introspect we will know, these are my weaknesses these are the tendencies these are the areas where I indulge excessively then if we suddenly get a prompting for any of those things it is safe to assume that that voice is coming from the mind that is the first thing, the second thing is that ultimately Krishna wants to guide us Krishna doesn’t want to confuse us so when the right and wrong options are clear if at that time we choose the right option and avoid the wrong option we are showing Krishna that we want to be guided and then Krishna will guide us more then Krishna will help us understand this is right, this is wrong but if when the right is clear and the wrong is clear still we choose the wrong then we are showing Krishna that we don’t want to be guided so that way things will become more and more confusing that’s why when we know something is right we try our best to do that and by that we show Krishna what it is that I want to do and Krishna will guide us more and more important than obsessing too much over specific choices now if we if we start practicing sadhana bhakti regularly we chant, study scripture regularly we come to the mode of goodness at least, we want to come to the mode of transcendence but when we come to the mode of goodness it is said that sarva dvareshu dehesmin prakasham upajayate janam yadatada vidyad nivruddham sattva mithyuta in 14.11 Krishna says that at, when we are in the mode of goodness then all the doors to the body sarva dvareshu dehesmin the doors to the body prakasham upajayate there is light in that now what does it mean? Is it that a person in goodness, light comes out of their eyes light comes out of their mouth light comes out of their nose no, Krishna is using light metaphorically to refer to knowledge over here see there is a door over there and say the area of the door is dark then I won’t know who is coming in, who is going out is it a friend, is it an enemy but if there is light over there I will know who is coming so like that when it is said the doors of the body are illumined that means we understand that with knowledge this kind of impression I should take it, this kind of impression I should not take it, this I should think about this I should not think about so that discerning sense naturally comes through the mode of goodness so if we start practicing bhakti sincerely then it brings us substantially to the mode of goodness and then making sense of what is right and what is wrong what is beneficial, what is harmful that becomes much easier and in general, last point I would make is that when we are unsure of what to do it is best to not do anything immediately, just pause so if we have to make some mind is saying do this, maybe I should do this something within not the mind, something within us is saying do this and we are not sure whether I should do it or not so usually in the course of our life we live mostly in the mode of passion, because I have to do this I have to do that, I have to run here, I have to run there and something new comes up we can just pause it and later on, when we are in the mode of goodness when we have done some prayer, we have done some meditation, we have heard some scripture our mind has become calmer, then we can evaluate so that way we will be able to understand which voice is whose voice and whether we should act on it or we should not act on it so first is by knowing what are the mind’s default tendencies and avoiding them, saying no to them and second is by acting rightly when we know what is right, thirdly by practicing sadhana bhakti to come to the mode of goodness and fourthly by postponing impulsive decisions till we are impulsive promptings till we are in the mode of goodness so that we can evaluate whether I should do it or not that way we can gradually start not only understanding what is, who what is, what is our internal territory but also acting wisely does that answer your question?