How can we know whether our resolutions are based on our mind or our intelligence?
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is that one of my friend how do I know that whatever resolutions I am making are under the mind or the intelligence as I said if something is enduring or something is just fleeting, the mind is very usually fleeting, it likes one thing afterwards it just gives it up so if we if we, there are times when we are in rajoguna, there are times we are in tamoguna, there are times we are in sattvoguna so in sattvoguna if we reflect and analyse then we will also be able to make sense ok this is important, this is not all that important we are able to see things sarva-dvareshu dehesme prakashyam uko jayate, jnanam yadata da vidyar nirdham sattvam tu in 14.11 Krishna states that actually when the doors of the senses are illumined by knowledge that time we can perceive things properly that is mode of goodness so if we reflect in the mode of goodness we can understand what we are, we can understand whether what we are doing is important or not or what is really important for us so introspecting the mode of goodness, writing things down to see whether how sound are the reasons because of which I want to do something and seeing whether something persists or not so today I may feel like I should go for a yatra, no I have not gone to holy places for so long but then tomorrow I feel who will go so far, I have many things to do so the mind is sometimes just we just come and go sometimes something stays for a sustained amount of time so the longevity of the thing the intellectual soundness of the thing and the self observation of all this when we are in goodness, all that can help us to understand whether something is coming from the mind or something is coming from the intelligence and ultimately of course we know that what comes from the intelligence is actually that which is in accordance with guru sadhu shastra so something is taking us away from Krishna then that is usually coming from the mind something that is taking us towards Krishna that is coming from the intelligence but even when we are going towards Krishna, there are multiple options how we can go towards Krishna that’s why we also need to further observe, introspect and then we can learn is that answer your question?