When our intelligence is controlled by lust how can it control the mind?

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so now we are meant to control the mind with the intelligence but even the intelligence is controlled by is covered with worldly desires and because of that although sometimes we may try but we may we may we may do some wrong things so what do we do at that time yes Krishna does say that when he talks about where all flux is situated in 3.40 he says that it is situated in the senses mind and intelligence at the same time Krishna also says at the end of the Bhagavad Gita now you with your intelligence contemplate this and decide what you want to do so deliberate with your intelligence and then do as you desire so what this means is that our intelligence it lust is situated in the intelligence but that doesn’t necessarily mean that lust or any worldly desire has constantly or totally taken over the intelligence so it is basically like there is there is greed or lust or whatever pride there in the intelligence but there is the other part also in the intelligence so the intelligence is like in a conflict zone it is in a border zone but it is partly controlled by Maya but partly it is also with Krishna it is also we have a conscience we do use our intelligence to choose wisely sometimes sometimes unwisely so basically the more we nourish our intelligence the more we will be able to act wisely if we regularly hear scriptures if we regularly study then the intelligence is strong otherwise if we indiscriminately contemplate some objects then the intelligence becomes weak and then the intelligence starts getting rationalized it starts getting used to rationalize what the mind is planning so that is with respect to it is not that the intelligence is entirely this way or entirely that way it is in between both ways it can be used with respect to our slipping or falling yes that is just a part of life we it is very difficult for it is very very rare souls who will just march towards Krishna all of us will have our slips and falls so the two different things see one is a victim and the other is a perpetrator or a wrong dude so when we are wounded when we are wounded say because the mind misled us and made us do some wrong thing then at that time we need to treat ourselves so it is like there are two broad approaches to look at these are conditions one is to treat them as a disease so say lust, anger, greed, envy, pride, these are diseases and a disease requires treatment but this itself it can go beyond a particular limit so if there is anger and somebody goes and somebody shouts ok that’s bad but somebody does not physically resolve then what happens then that may go into the hands of the law and people may have to punish the person may have to go to jail so it depends on the extent so at one level as long as it is within reasonable and then there needs to be punished so I mean punishment means that much stronger actions required over there so for most of us it’s not that we just rationalize or think that nothing is wrong when I fell down but it’s just that that’s the normal way in which we grow so instead of becoming discouraged when we fall we can actually become more determined to connect with Krishna yes it is why did I fall why did I have this slip or fall it’s not because Krishna bhakti doesn’t work it’s rather because I became disconnected from Krishna bhakti so let’s say on many roads at the side of the road there are bumps so if a driver starts going off the road then suddenly there is a bump so somebody is driving on a road and they start slipping off something and then the car starts going off the road they wake up and they pull the car back on the road so like that when we start we are going on the path of Krishna bhakti but when we doze off then we go off track and we go off track there are bumps and the bumps wake us up and we want to pull ourselves back so when the desire starts agitating within us rather than thinking that this is the failure of the process of Krishna bhakti we can see that there is a failure of our absorption in Krishna the desire is coming up within us and the desire is making us do some small wrong things because then that is like the car has gone off track and there is a warning to me get the car back on track so if we see if we think that because the desires have come I have to do the thing then it is like we are going off the wrong track but if the desires have come because I have gone off track there are two different things one is because the desires have come I will go off track no not like that desires have come because I have already gone off track I have become disconnected from Krishna so let me reconnect with Krishna if we do that then we will find that we will be able to overcome whatever wrongs are there and that we will actually be able to become more intense in our Krishna path