If the software is compared to the mind what is the intelligence compared to?
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this article, thank you so if the software is compared to the mind where does the intelligence come into the picture see the word mind is sometimes used as a shorthand to refer to the entire subtle world words often have different meanings in different contexts so the same word can mean different things so I was in America I gave a college program, after that one devotee came and told me, you killed it what did I kill he said actually you killed it is a way of appreciating, you did very well it’s like somebody goes on hunting and they kill some, kill the bird you killed it, I was shocked how did I kill so the word kill, killed it has a very different meaning in America than what it does in India so similarly the mind the word is basically a multivalent sometimes the mind can be used to refer to one particular item within the subtle body, that is the mind, intelligence and false ego or sometimes the mind can refer to the entire subtle body it is an intermediate realm between body and soul so now within the subtle body there is the mind and there is the intelligence so we could say something like I have a software in my computer and I also have a antivirus software the antivirus software, the security software that I have in my computer, that’s like the intelligence but sometimes some software are so dangerous some malware, some viruses are so cunning that they just bypass the security software so like that overall our subtle body has an intelligence which is meant to guard us but just like the security software needs to be regularly updated otherwise there will be some malware some virus, something which will bypass it like that our intelligence needs to be regularly rejuvenated by scriptural study without that overall our subtle body which we refer to by the name shorthand as mind it will work mostly against us that means the word mind can refer to this one element mind within the subtle body mind, intelligence and ego or the word mind can refer to all three together now for all practical purposes our subtle body tends to be impulsive all the intelligence is there it’s not always that we act according to the intelligence it’s quite often that we act according to the impulses so for functional purposes we can say the subtle body largely is pulled and pushed by the mind the intelligence is there but it doesn’t so regularly function that’s why the mind when I am using it I am using it as a shorthand to refer to everything that is present at the software level so it can be functional software it can be security software it can be harmful software all that is referred to, the subtle level of reality is referred to by the mind