Is purification of the intelligence the same as purification of the mind?

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Is purification of the intelligence the same as the purification of the mind? Not exactly the mind is filled with desires whereas you could say the intelligence is filled with reasoning reasoning means that ok this is like this we analyze and reason now we may be able to reason also in an impure way that means I may reason to arrive at a particular conclusion which simply fulfills my desire sometimes we say there is a battle between the mind and the intelligence which is true but say if the mind wins that doesn’t mean that the intelligence is lost the mind uses the intelligence to fulfill its desire to rationalize the fulfillment of its desire so for example atheists may come up with various rationalizations to justify that it is believing God so the purification of the intelligence means that the intelligence is freed from false reasoning so for example now nowadays abortion is very common so at one level people know that it will be a killing life over but they want to deny it so nowadays those who are aggressive propagators of abortion one argument they use is that actually pregnancy is nature’s slavery for women and abortion is technology’s liberation for women it’s a terribly distorted perception of things actually pregnancy is a privilege nature has given and that’s how the human race continues that’s how we can get a new soul into this world but in order to justify that what is it? Prabhupada will say that a man and a woman unite in an illicit way a woman becomes pregnant why is nature being so unfair to us? so we will go against nature in today’s world we can say that families are fragmented and a woman has to alone take care of a child sometimes it’s difficult but that doesn’t mean nature has gone wrong it’s a natural plan but we have disrupted our society so much that things have gone terribly wrong so where the mind has a particular desire and then the intelligence comes up with reasons to justify that and that is the impure intelligence the impure intelligence justifies the mind’s impure desires so in a sense purification of the intelligence and purification of the mind are two separate things sometimes if we just hear somebody who is very logical or more logical than us I can understand that my reasoning was false and then if we reject the false reasoning at that time then our intelligence will become pure but still the mind will remain impure the mind will still keep proposing I want to do this, I want to do this I read one book and I saw one book actually at the airport bookstore title of that book was the taste of wine is the proof that god loves us so in the western world drinking wine is very common oh god is so good he has given us a nice tasting wine now ok there are so many other proof that god loves you why do you need the taste of wine for that so sometimes if we understand and we accept this was false reasoning then the intelligence will become pure the mind’s purification will still be there even if I understand ok drinking alcohol is bad but still the mind may keep proposing so then we will have to combat that we will have to resist that with our intelligence so purification of the mind and purification of the intelligence are two distinct things but generally speaking the purification of the intelligence in terms of at least becoming intellectually convinced of what is right and what is wrong that can come faster the purification of the mind will take much longer so when the intelligence is purified we call that conviction when the mind is purified we call that purification both are actually purification but generally we use purification as a word when we say I no longer have that desire like say if somebody was drinking alcohol earlier and now they see somebody else is drinking alcohol they don’t feel like drinking anymore then the mind is no longer proposing that means they have become purified so but at least initially alcohol drinking is bad so I don’t want to drink these are the reasons why I don’t want to drink that is purification of the intelligence