When taking decisions, how do we balance using our intelligence and having faith in Krishna?

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so we make our decision and then there is also the transcendental aspect where there is fate I think I mentioned this earlier that when I started public speaking for the first time I was given a set of guidelines and the last guideline was while you are speaking in public depend on Krishna but in bracket but only after you have prepared so the point is there is dependence on God and there is diligence for God so both are important so we have been given some intelligence and we use our intelligence according to the best of our capacity and after using our intelligence if something is we have done our part then we leave the remaining to the higher powers that are there but it is not that we abdicate our responsibility is that we do our part and then we hand over the remaining so in a particular decision making process we can’t think about everything but we don’t need to think of the factors that are in our control and by doing the best that we can do then we attract powers beyond us to help us to do that which we can’t do as they say God helps those who help themselves so helping ourselves is our part and that which is beyond us that assistance will come so when I said in our particular context I talk about decision making and say acceptance based on transcendence the point was that we understand that there is a plan in our life so the mind says everything has gone wrong this went wrong that went wrong everything is terrible so at that particular point we need to understand that there is a plan in life and even if some things have gone wrong, good can be brought out of that wrong this weekend I was at Fort Lauderdale and I did a series of talks there on spiritual lessons from car driving so after that one Ukrainian girl she came she said that she had gone to one place an isolated retreat place and she wanted to leave from there and one friend had said that I will pick you up and they said we will leave at 10 o’clock she said 10 o’clock 10.15, 10.30, 10.45 she was waiting because it was so remote, she did not get any signal and finally at 11.30 she got some signal and she called I am waiting one hour oh I am sorry I forgot I am already so far away, I can’t come now she was furious I told you yesterday I reminded you today morning just I forgot the phone got cut off whether he said or not he didn’t know and then just that evening she was there she was very very angry and then one friend told her that the same boy the same person was going to give her a ride around 12 o’clock after a talk of half an hour he had met with an accident with a drunk driver and the drunk driver had hit the vehicle exactly on the passenger side so now he had not got he was in the hospital but he was not so badly injured but if anybody had hit the passenger side he killed over there so she was telling me that I was so angry at that how could this person forget me what do I know why what is happening in my life so that’s why we sometimes evaluate things from our limited perspective and there are things which go wrong now it was not that he knew there was going to be an accident it was just his forgetfulness but even other mistakes can be a part of a higher plan so when I talk about acceptance or acceptance based on transcendence the point was that this negativity, you know, you can’t do it you made so many mistakes, you are good for nothing no, whatever I need to be I am good enough for that but from here I want to move forward so the steps are there the decisions for the steps are there, that’s what we take but we don’t beat ourselves up for where we are we accept that wherever I am, for whatever reason I am it is my mistake, somebody else’s mistake or whatever it is from here I take steps forward so that acceptance comes much easier when we have that understanding the higher plan operation in our life but that higher plan also requires our cooperation and that cooperation is where we use our intelligence and we try to function using the best analytical skills the best thought process that we can use does that answer your question? thank you