How is our intelligence partly our friend and partly our enemy?

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when I said some part of the inclinations is good some part of the inclinations is bad what do you mean by that? Prabhupada writes a letter that we are meant to use our intelligence to control our enjoymentality but our problem is that we are habituated to enjoying intelligently so enjoying intelligently means that we enjoy in a way that we cover our drags, that nobody comes to know about it so this can go at any level somebody may serve something wrong on the net and then they do it on an incognito or they cover up they delete the browser history so here we are succumbing to the mind but we are using our intelligence how to do it in such a way that I will not be caught I will not be detected so the mind, the intelligence can be used so for us sometimes the intelligence restricts, no don’t do this sometimes the intelligence only plans oh you can do it this way so some part of the intelligence works to reject or resist temptation some part of the intelligence works to rationalize there is nothing wrong in it what is the big deal about it some part of the intelligence works to cover up the indulgence so basically Shastra has to be our Pramana when something is prompting us this is how I am thinking, is that right, is that wrong so if Shastra is our reference point then when the intelligence does something is this right or is this wrong so in Kaliyuga even materialistic atheistic people are extremely intelligent there are people who write books about atheism there are people who write books about materialism so there are very aggressive feminists Prabhupada would say that men women when they unite woman has to become pregnant, man goes so that’s why Prabhupada said that is the way nature has tried to restrict the thing so now some feminists they say that actually nature has been unfair to women so they say pregnancy is biological slavery and abortion is woman’s tool to liberation so the slavery that nature has imposed upon women through abortion we liberate ourselves from that slavery so this is such a terrible thing normally in traditional circles in most societies if a woman is not able to have a child it’s considered a sad thing in the western world they don’t say a childless woman they say a child free woman free from that so just to come up with words like this it also requires intelligence what to speak of, write books about it so there is the intelligence which is used to rationalize wrongdoing that is the corrupted intelligence and the intelligence which is used to resist and reject wrongdoing that is the good intelligence does that answer your question?