All Glories to guru and gauranga.It is always advised to take decisions by our intelligence and not by our mind.But can someöne explain me how i will come to know that the decision which i took was an outcome of my mind or by my intelligence.
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Hare Krishna Prashant Prabhu, please accept my humble obeisances! all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Mind's functions are:
i will do whatever i like and i want.
But intelligence functions like the next:
i will do what it should be done.
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For example, nowadays people live as they want and like: wake up whenever they like, eat whatever they like, do whatever they like...
But when we live according to intelligence then we live according to authorized scriptures. Like we should wake up in Brahma Muhurta, eat Prasadam, chant the Holy Names...
"i do not like it but even though i will do it" it is intelligence.
If Guru, Sadhu and Shastras accept our action as a right action then we are living by our intelligence.
Intelligence means 'Buddhi'. And this buddhi does come directly from Lord Krsna by the Guru Parampara. You cannot compare your personal intelligence (i.e. what we mean intelligence materialistically) with this spiritual intelligence.
And how do you can achieve this Buddhi? Instruction given by Lord Krsna:
tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam dadami buddhi-yogam tam yena mam upayanti te BG10.10
It means "To those who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me."
In this matter I want to share 2 of my practical experiences.
1) I was in the Gita Corse Grade 1 class. I am writing in a exam. The exam was going after finishing 6 chapter of BG. I was in a confusion with a question. Then I made a question to my course teacher who was acting as invigilator for the exam. Just after stopping the last word of my question, he, my course teacher, answered with a bombing voice like a thunder. He didn't take a second to understand what I was asking to! It was astonishing for me that, he understood my question when it was in my mind and gave his answer without delaying a second and withing only 2 sentence perfectly!
So, this is how, he achieved buddhi directly from Lord Krsna through his Gurudeva and by this intelligence he realized my mind nicely!
2) HG Krishna Balarama Prabhu was giving a lecture where he told us [I listened in a recorded lecture, I was not physically present to the lecture class room], one day one person came to him with a question.The person asked Krisna Balarama Prabhu that he wanted to give some gift to Lord Krsna and but he couldn't fix what to give!
Krishna Balarama Prabhu instantly said to him, "the best gift if you can stand in front of Rada Madhava and say to Him, I love you Radha Madhava very much."
After that, Krishna Balarama Prabhu said to us, that he was astonished how did he tell this very nice answer to that person? This how buddhi comes, by the grace of Guru and Gauranga.
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Hare Krishna Prashant Prabhu, please accept my humble obeisances! all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Mind's functions are:
i will do whatever i like and i want.
But intelligence functions like the next:
i will do what it should be done.
-----------------
For example, nowadays people live as they want and like: wake up whenever they like, eat whatever they like, do whatever they like...
But when we live according to intelligence then we live according to authorized scriptures. Like we should wake up in Brahma Muhurta, eat Prasadam, chant the Holy Names...
"i do not like it but even though i will do it" it is intelligence.
If Guru, Sadhu and Shastras accept our action as a right action then we are living by our intelligence.
Your servant,
Intelligence means 'Buddhi'. And this buddhi does come directly from Lord Krsna by the Guru Parampara. You cannot compare your personal intelligence (i.e. what we mean intelligence materialistically) with this spiritual intelligence.
And how do you can achieve this Buddhi? Instruction given by Lord Krsna:
tesam satata-yuktanam
bhajatam priti-purvakam
dadami buddhi-yogam tam
yena mam upayanti te BG10.10
It means "To those who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me."
In this matter I want to share 2 of my practical experiences.
1) I was in the Gita Corse Grade 1 class. I am writing in a exam. The exam was going after finishing 6 chapter of BG. I was in a confusion with a question. Then I made a question to my course teacher who was acting as invigilator for the exam. Just after stopping the last word of my question, he, my course teacher, answered with a bombing voice like a thunder. He didn't take a second to understand what I was asking to! It was astonishing for me that, he understood my question when it was in my mind and gave his answer without delaying a second and withing only 2 sentence perfectly!
So, this is how, he achieved buddhi directly from Lord Krsna through his Gurudeva and by this intelligence he realized my mind nicely!
2) HG Krishna Balarama Prabhu was giving a lecture where he told us [I listened in a recorded lecture, I was not physically present to the lecture class room], one day one person came to him with a question.The person asked Krisna Balarama Prabhu that he wanted to give some gift to Lord Krsna and but he couldn't fix what to give!
Krishna Balarama Prabhu instantly said to him, "the best gift if you can stand in front of Rada Madhava and say to Him, I love you Radha Madhava very much."
After that, Krishna Balarama Prabhu said to us, that he was astonished how did he tell this very nice answer to that person? This how buddhi comes, by the grace of Guru and Gauranga.
Hribol!
Forgive my ignorance and faults.
Your Servant
Shaon