What is the difference between the mind and the intelligence – Hindi?

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What is the relationship between the chitta and the mind? Now in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna sometimes uses these two words equivalently. At one level he says, manmana bhava mad-bhakto.
He says that think of me. Fix your mind on me, manmana. And then machitta mad-gata prana.
The consciousness of my devotees is fixed on me, machitta. So in a functional sense, we can say that they are similar. But in a technical sense, there is a difference.
The word chitta is different from, that is c-i-t-t-a, chitta. That is different from c-i-t-chit. So the soul is sat-chit-ananda.
As sat-chit-ananda, chit or consciousness is the original faculty of the soul. It’s the original property. The soul is eternal.
It is conscious. So now the soul’s consciousness is currently caught in the body and routed through the body to the outer world. So I am identifying with my body.
And from there I am thinking I am looking at you, you are looking at me. So this identification is happening. Now in this identification, the conditioned consciousness of the soul that is routed into the body is called as chitta.
So chitta is the original unconditioned consciousness. And chitta is the consciousness that is routed through the body. It’s a simple example.
Suppose a person is watching a movie. Now a person is going to the theatre to watch the movie. So at that time the person can see everything.
The person can see the movie screen, the person can see the neighbour sitting next to him, the person can see the floor, can see the ceiling, can see the fans, lights. But once the movie starts, the movie screen is so captivating, the person’s consciousness gets locked on the movie screen. And then whatever is happening in the movie screen, that’s where the consciousness goes and through that there are all kinds of emotions of excitement, horror, suspense.
All the different emotions come up. So like that, the soul, original soul is conscious and is capable of being conscious of spiritual reality also. So just like the person watching a movie can see the person sitting next to him.
So like that the super soul is right next to us. And we have the capacity to perceive the super soul. There is an example of the two birds.
Two birds are close to each other but one bird is busy eating the fruits. So like that the soul is currently next to the super soul. Soul has the capacity to see the super soul.
The soul is caught up in the material illusion. So the original conscious faculty of the soul, the capacity of the soul to see everything including spiritual reality, that is Chitta. And the consciousness that gets rooted onto the movie screen and after that whatever is perceived, that is called as Chitta.
So conditional consciousness is Chitta. And the original consciousness is Chitta. Now coming to the mind, the movie screen is like the mind.
The movie screen where the inputs, whatever is there, what is depicted in the movie, that is being displayed. So that is the mind. So the mind is, so now when Krishna says, that means what? At one level he is saying, you, on the screen of your mind, you bring impressions about me.
That means, you remember the deities, you remember the holy name, you remember the verses. On the screen of the mind, bring the impressions about me. Secondly, what also it means is that your Chitta, your energy of consciousness, you focus on me.
So by this what will happen? Because Krishna is spiritual, by focusing on him as a spiritual reality, our spiritual awareness will awaken. Jeeva jago, jeeva jago, we say. What is that? That is actually the soul’s spiritual faculty awakens.
And once they awaken, it’s like, oh, Supersoul is right next to me. So Krishna is right next to me, I will be able to perceive. But till I am caught up, now, continuing this analogy a little bit, Duttakarma Prabhu in his book, Forbidden Archaeology, he elaborates the analogy quite a bit.
Suppose there is a person who is watching a movie. But now assume that between the face of the person and the movie screen, there is a sort of a subtle covering or a pipe. So that the vision goes straight to the screen and the vision cannot go anywhere else.
That means the person has the capacity to see other things. But because of that pipeline, the person’s vision is fixed on the movie screen only. So that pipeline which fixes the vision on the movie screen, that is the false ego.
So because of our false ego, we can’t perceive other things. For example, if somebody very passionately identifies with, say, there is a war in Iran and Iraq. If somebody very passionately identifies with Iran, then the person cannot think from the Iraqi perspective.
Not that we could have done anything wrong. They are only wrong. Why? Because the vision is locked like that.
So in our case, the screen on which we perceive the world, that is mind. And the conditioned vision or the conditioned consciousness with which we perceive, so that is the chitta. So in the action, for example, now if I have to look out of a window, if the window is red colored, there are two things involved in my perception.
One is my eyes looking at the window. My conscious energy gets focused on the window. Secondly, there is a screen of the window.
So now if that screen is reddish, then what will happen? Whatever eye is there, I will see reddish. But if now the screen is transparent, I will be able to see transparently. Cheto darpan marjanam.
So clean the chitta. So from a functional point of view, both the mind and the chitta are basically the means by which we perceive in this material world. So we can krishnaize it.
When we krishnaize it, our spiritual faculty will awaken. So now in a conversational sense when we say wo mere chitta se chala gaya hai, so basically what it means is that that person no longer comes on the screen of the mind. Because we have forgotten that.
So something which is a bad experience, which was a big scar in the past, but with the passage of time we forget it. That’s how it is. That is the meaning of that word.
So chitta is the conditioned consciousness and mind is the screen on which that conditioned consciousness perceives.