​Why do we talk only about mind control and not about intelligence control?

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so first question is that now why do we always talk about mind control and why do we always blame the mind why don’t we talk about intelligence control and why don’t we blame the intelligence when we do wrong things yeah actually speaking at a practical level it is not so easy to differentiate between the mind and the intelligence also it is the important thing to recognize is that there is some force inside us that works against us there is some force inside us that often makes us do things that are harmful for ourselves and harmful for others now what we call that by what name we call that force that is not important now in the different traditions there is a Native American tradition they talk about a good dog and a bad dog so there is a good dog which prompts us towards good a bad dog which prompts us towards bad so like that there is a force within us which makes us do wrong things and there is a force there is some element within us which also guides us towards the right things so broadly speaking now there are subtleties in this but the important thing is we broadly Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Ram Hare Ram Ram Ram Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Ram Hare Ram Ram Ram Hare by the way I was told that yesterday many devotees were not able to hear the class because of sound system so if that happens any time please feel free to interrupt me because I would like to know that and we can correct it in the middle of the class also I don’t mind stopping for a few minutes to adjust that so if any time this audio goes down or something please let me know so basically there is a force inside us which is helpful and there is a force inside us which is harmful and in terms of broad nomenclature we say that the harmful force is the mind and the helpful force is the intelligence now there are subtleties within that also as I said sometimes the intelligence can also be sabotaged and the intelligence can also act negative but every system of education begins first with classification and then we go into grey areas first we talk about say this is India this is Pakistan then we say this is the border but then actually you go to Pakistan there is no clear border in many places there is a dispute is this belonging here or here so India-China border China apparently intruded into India so the Indian government said that actually they are not intruded because we don’t have a fixed border because basically the point is that initially we have a system of classification where we put this here and put that there and that system of classification is important for initial grasping of concepts and afterwards we get into subtleties so broadly speaking we say that the inner hostile force is the mind the inner helpful force is the intelligence now there are subtleties that the mind can also sometimes give us good ideas sometimes we call it as a hunch or a gut feeling this is what I should do and sometimes we get a hunch or a gut feeling which is positive so the mind can also sometimes speak good and sometimes people can also plan long term wrongdoings so the intelligence can also work in wrong ways but initially in terms of analysis for the grasping of the concepts we call the positive side as the mind sorry the positive side as the positive inner force of the intelligence and the negative inner force as the mind so that’s why we talk primarily about mind control and not intelligence