​How can we understand the intelligence and ego to be different from the mind and the soul?

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So how exactly can we become aware of the intelligence as it is different from aware of the intelligence of the ego? Actually generally how do we identify someone? Now if you are going to meet someone somewhere at a particular place, we may have some description of that person.
And then when we meet the person over there and we find this particular description matches this person and then we identify oh this is this particular person. Or suppose if a cricket match is going on, it is not that before the cricket match all the opposite team members are brought in front of this player of each player of the opposite team and told this is so and so, this is so and so, this is so and so. Now this the one team may see the pictures of the other team members and then we know okay this person is a spin baller, this person is a is a wicket keeper, this person is so and so and they have normally how do we identify a person in general? Basically we come to know about their characteristics through reading about them or watching them or hearing from someone who knows them and then during the interactions during the course of action, when we see those characteristics in someone we start understanding oh this is that person so if you know that there is a Chinese person going to come and then we see somebody who looks Chinese then oh that must be the Chinese person, we will infer so basically we need to understand from scripture what are the characteristics of the mind, intelligence and ego and when we see certain specific characteristics manifesting within us, then we start understanding that is actually the intelligence say for example the intelligence is its nature is to ask questions, its nature is to come up with doubts, its nature is to look for intellectual comprehension of things sometimes when in the course of our practice of spiritual life we find that there is too much hyper-intellectuality happening in our mind that means we are just because we don’t get one particular answer and that answer is also not of a very important question and because we don’t get that answer we start we start becoming paralyzed, not ready to do anything else not even ready to practice bhakti till we get that answer and we give up the practice of bhakti because that answer is not available then we end up getting caught that means we understand this sort of hyper-intellectuality is the characteristic of the mind characteristic of the intelligence similarly as I said that ego basically to understand the ego means to recognize that we are driven by our responses are defined primarily by the consideration of whether I am being respected or not and we don’t focus on any other consideration, we focus only on that consideration and that is what is undesirable so if you can avoid that kind of excessive focus on one particular thing and recognize when certain characteristics of certain points are coming towards us or when we see within us the characteristics of either the mind or the intelligence or the ego becoming manifested then we can recognize that this is what is happening to us so by appreciating the characteristics of that particular object we can move onwards and recognize that this is the mind, this is the intelligence and this is the ego acting