Is determination situated in the intelligence or in the mind?

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Is determination situated in the mind or is it situated in the intelligence? It is both because if we consider Dhruv Maharaj when he was incited at that time he said I am going to get a kingdom bigger than my fathers my grandfathers, my whole dynasties now that the desire was largely in the mind the mind had felt hurt because of insult, disrespect, the pride was hurt but then from that the determination came and he was ready to perform phenomenal austerity for that so generally if the determination comes from the mind then that is usually something which more or less agrees with the determination of the mind that means that a Kshatriya Kshatriyas also have a lot of determination but the determination is primarily for getting power, getting position getting property even materialistic people do have determination there may be like say sometimes people go to a party where they are going to drink but if they are going to drive back even in that drinking we call it a tamasic activity but even there, there may be some satsuguna what do you mean by satsuguna you may decide, see if you are going to drive back today you have to perform austerity you can’t drink today you take some non-alcoholic beverage and others will drink, next time in a party you drink, I will not so even when they are doing the tamasic activity you could have total tamasic activity where you drink and you try to drive but even in a tamasic activity even in an activity like drinking there can be some regulation now everybody else is drinking and I decide I will not drink that requires some amount of determination that person doesn’t have determination to not go to drinking parties and that person doesn’t have determination to give up drinking all the time, but they have determination, right now I won’t drink why because at that time there is based on rajoguna, profit loss calculation oh if I drink and I drive, I get caught I will lose my license and that will be a big loss so basically we can have determination emerging from the mind also if the mind is very attached to something the mind considers something very important or there are two things which we are evaluating so sometimes materialistic people may also work extremely hard now at one level, we can say people who are materialistic, they are very attached to the body they want bodily gratification but when they work very hard they are actually putting their body to austerity so in that case to do that requires determination but the determination is based on a relative evaluation of which material thing is more important so in rajoguna if I find that something is important for me, if I decide that then the rajasic mind can have an enormous amount of determination also now the expertise of Guru Maharaj was of Narada Muni was that that rajasic determination was directed towards transcendence although he wanted a kingdom but because he associated with Narada Muni it was directed towards Krishna and as he became purified so determination can come from the mind when the mind considers something very very important and determination can also come from the intelligence that means that if I have studied scripture, if I have deliberated seriously I understand this is important for me then even in the mind I don’t want to do this, no you are going to do this the mind feelings are fleeting up and down, up and down but through that you perceive so in bhakti I will be talking about this hopefully in a future session that we want to channel the mind also in Krishna’s service and we want to channel the intelligence also in Krishna’s service so certain tendencies of the mind may be good also so in the sense that we like to do certain things and in that even if I like to do something I like to write and even when I like to write at that time it is not that I always like to write the mind is very comfortable writing and if I decide writing is my main service I can do it very well so the mind has a particular inclination and in that determination it is relatively easier to have because that is the basic principle of the varna ashram our vritti, our particular inclination of our varna where is that situated, it is in subtle body and the mind is naturally attracted towards that we can do it well but even when we are doing something which we like to do, when we like to do something determination in that is relatively easier to it but even in that there are times when we will not like it there are writers who get writer’s block sometimes we may like to manage delegate and do things why do you take this up actually don’t feel into it there is an author who says that writing is very easy all that you have to do is sit in front of a computer and glare at the screen till drops of blood form on your forehead so sometimes even somebody who likes to write, they may not like nothing seems to be happening, at that time you have to proceed so we need for doing something in a sustainable way in our life we need to channel the mind’s inclination, we can be easily determined in that direction but we want to channel it in a constructive way, like it happened for Dhruva by Narad Muni’s direction but even by doing something which the mind likes to do where it is easier to be determined sometimes the mind will be wavering even in that and that time we need the intelligence so determination can come both from the mind and the intelligence