How do we differentiate between our Intelligence guiding us or the Mind in the Mode of Goodness?

From: Puri Ashishkumar

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Question for Puri Ashish Kumar How do we differentiate between our intelligence guiding us or the mind in the mode of goodness Answer, we don’t have to become paralyzed by this kind of analysis in general the broad principles that we try to act according to principles given in scripture and principles that are based on morality and using our common sense now in general the when the mind is in the mode of goodness then basically it cooperates with the intelligence so that’s why the two act almost as if they are one unit in general the mind is the agitated by the lower modes and then if we have some sort of higher sense which says that okay this is not the way I should be acting and that indicates that that is the intelligence acting now when the intelligence acts at that particular time there is an inner tug of war between the intelligence and the mind, the intelligence which is asking us to do something short term, something foolish and the mind which is, the intelligence which wants us to do something wise and the mind which wants us to do something foolish so ultimately all that we from our outside perspective can know is that there are conflicting voices within me one voice is talking about my good interests and the other is talking about harming me or about asking me to do things that will eventually harm me so that’s how we identify one voice to be the intelligence and the other voice to be the mind but when the mind is in the mode of goodness then both voices the voice of the mind in the goodness and the intelligence act as one, so at that point we don’t really need to differentiate between the two now our purpose in trying to look within is not just to, just merely ontologically identify that this is this this is this, in fact actually speaking the way we differentiate between mind, intelligence and false ego, look all of them are subtle is by their functionality otherwise if you don’t consider the functionality from the ontological point of view ontological means existential point of view there is just no way we can know what is what and we will become as I said in the starting we will become paralyzed by analysis if we just go into that kind of analysis so primarily we know that there are voices within us and what we need to do is we need to identify which voice is talking about my good and which voice is talking for my harm and once I identify that or once I find out that actually both voices are talking for my good only then there is no need for us to really go about this is my voice in goodness this is the mind and this is the intelligence when the mind and intelligence become aligned so Krishna for example uses the word manmana, fix the mind on me so some places he uses, he differentiates tad buddhaya tad atmanas tan nishtas tad parayanaha so say this here in 5.17 he differentiates between the buddhi, tad buddhaya and intelligence and tad atmanas buddhi is intelligence and atmanas Prabhupada explains over here is the mind but towards the conclusion of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna, this is manmana he doesn’t differentiate, he says earlier when he was talking about how this 18.65 is there and again 9.34 is there, manmana is there elsewhere in 12.8 Krishna says many other places Krishna in 8.7 for example says mayy arpitamano buddhaya, again 12 chapter is the same thing so sometimes Krishna will refer to mind and intelligence separately and sometimes he will in a generic sense refer to the subtle faculty of our being by one term and that one term is the mind so in this case what Krishna is telling is make your subtle body into a one voice and let that one voice that one force, one energy become focused on me, so if in our case the mind and intelligence are fixing the same thing then there is no need for us to try to struggle to differentiate