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  • Susakha Shyamasundara Das July 15, 2015 at 1:00pm

    Hare Krishna Prabhu,

    The soul is covered by gross body which we can feel and touch made by earth,water,fire,air and ether. But there are subtle covering of soul like mind,intelligence and false ego.

    Manas - Mind

    Budhi - Intelligence.

    So,manas and budhi are two different things altogether.

    Mind is store house of all desires and it's main functions to to accept or reject. 

    Budhi is the intelligence of person,which will make decision or will tell mind whether to accept or reject. When our intelligence is weak then mind will be uncontrolable. But when a persons intlligence is very strong by understanding spiritual subject matters then he can controle the mind.

    According to sastra the mind is placed in Heart not in brain.That's why when we are not feeling good,our heart becomes weak.Intelligence is software and brain is just a hardware.

    By chanting hare krishna mahamantra we can make our mind and intelligence very strong and this makes our life happy and peaceful.

    Hope this answers your question. Hare krishna.

    Jai Srila Prabhupada.

    • Venkateshwar > Susakha Shyamasundara Das July 16, 2015 at 6:28am

      Great explanation. Thanks Prabhuji.

  • Susakha Shyamasundara Das July 15, 2015 at 12:50pm

    Hare Krishna Prabhu,

    Here is the sloka from Bagavat Gita,

    Chapter 7: Knowledge of the Absolute

    TEXT 4
    bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh
    kham mano buddhir eva ca
    ahankara itiyam me
    bhinna prakrtir astadha
    SYNONYMS
    bhūmiḥ—earth; āpaḥ—water; analaḥ—fire; vāyuḥ—air; kham—ether;manaḥ—mind; buddhiḥ—intelligence; eva—certainly; ca—and; ahaṅkāraḥ—false ego; iti—thus; iyam—all these; me—My; bhinnā—separated; prakṛtiḥ—energies; aṣṭadhā—total eight.
    TRANSLATION
    Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-altogether these eight comprise My separated material energies.
    PURPORT
    The science of God analyzes the constitutional position of God and His diverse energies. Material nature is called prakṛti, or the energy of the Lord in His differentpuruṣa incarnations (expansions) as described in the Svatvata Tantra:
    viṣṇos tu trīṇi rūpāṇi puruṣākhyāny atho viduḥ
    ekantu mahataḥ sraṣṭṛ dvitīyaṁ tv aṇḍa-saṁsthitam
    tṛtīyaṁ sarvabhūta-sthaṁ tāni jñātvā vimucyate
    "For material creation, Lord Kṛṣṇa's plenary expansion assumes three Viṣṇus. The first one, Mahā-Viṣṇu, creates the total material energy, known as mahat-tattva. The second, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, enters into all the universes to create diversities in each of them. The third, Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, is diffused as the all-pervading Supersoul in all the universes and is known as Paramātmā, who is present even within the atoms. Anyone who knows these three Viṣṇus can be liberated from material entanglement."
    This material world is a temporary manifestation of one of the energies of the Lord. All the activities of the material world are directed by these three Viṣṇu expansions of Lord Kṛṣṇa. These Puruṣas are called incarnations. Generally one who does not know the science of God (Kṛṣṇa) assumes that this material world is for the enjoyment of the living entities and that the living entities are the causes(Puruṣas), controllers and enjoyers of the material energy. According to Bhagavad-gītā this atheistic conclusion is false. In the verse under discussion it is stated that Kṛṣṇa is the original cause of the material manifestation. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also confirms this. The ingredients of the material manifestation are separated energies of the Lord. Even the brahmajyoti, which is the ultimate goal of the impersonalists, is a spiritual energy manifested in the spiritual sky. There are no spiritual diversities in brahmajyoti as there are in the Vaikuṇṭhalokas, and the impersonalist accepts thisbrahmajyoti as the ultimate eternal goal. The Paramātmā manifestation is also a temporary all-pervasive aspect of the Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. The Paramātmā manifestation is not eternal in the spiritual world. Therefore the factual Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa. He is the complete energetic person, and He possesses different separated and internal energies.
    In the material energy, the principal manifestations are eight, as above mentioned. Out of these, the first five manifestations, namely earth, water, fire, air and sky, are called the five gigantic creations or the gross creations, within which the five sense objects are included. They are the manifestations of physical sound, touch, form, taste and smell. Material science comprises these ten items and nothing more. But the other three items, namely mind, intelligence and false ego, are neglected by the materialists. Philosophers who deal with mental activities are also not perfect in knowledge because they do not know the ultimate source, Kṛṣṇa. The false ego-"I am," and "It is mine," which constitute the basic principle of material existence-includes ten sense organs for material activities. Intelligence refers to the total material creation, called the mahat-tattva. Therefore from the eight separated energies of the Lord are manifest the twenty-four elements of the material world, which are the subject matter of sāṅkhya atheistic philosophy; they are originally offshoots from Kṛṣṇa's energies and are separated from Him, but atheistic sāṅkhyaphilosophers with a poor fund of knowledge do not know Kṛṣṇa as the cause of all causes. The subject matter for discussion in the sāṅkhya philosophy is only the manifestation of the external energy of Kṛṣṇa, as it is described in the Bhagavad-gītā.
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