Let us learn the activities of MIND and INTELLECTs. Because everything depends on how I use my mind and intellects. Intellect knows that smoking cigarette is injurious to health. But mind desires to smoke cigarette. At that time, one should control the mind with intellect. Some do not wish to smoke cigarettes. Some put brake to mind using intellect. These people can be called as intelligent in this matter.
Some get addicted and smoke for some period. When some symptoms of ill health are seen, their intellect (which had been previously slept, lazy, careless) gets awakened. Then it may control the mind. There is some repentance (loss). Then they give up smoking.
Some won’t give up smoking early. But when they see T.B or cancer patients in hospital, they get shocked by personally seeing the dreadful effects of smoking. Their intellect realizes now! Then they think of quitting smoking. Some give up smoking at still a later stage. That is, when they personally get cancer. Some do not quit smoking at all. To that extent, their intellect is made inactive or weak.
Surrendering intellect to any material, person is as though killing the intellect. This is the greatest suicide in life. It decreases one’s inner power. Surrendering to good things(divinity) is not killing the intellect. Good things(truth, purity, divinity) increase the power of intellect. Surrendering intellect to GOOD/BAD things is like observing RIGHT/WRONG food.
A person having habit for a long duration usually would have lost his real taste. It is difficult to treat an addicted person. It is difficult to remove madness from a mad person. Similarly, we all are mental patients by birth. By birth itself, we are given wrong food(knowledge). We have considered us as body, Hindu, Muslim, male, female, etc. Nobody has given the right knowledge about the soul to us.
Many religious people have said/preached about Soul, but have not given the right knowledge. Some say, mind is part of brain. Some say there is no rebirth. Some say body, soul, mind, God everything is same (AHAM BRAHMAASMI = I am the BRAHMAN). Some say I am God (SHIVOHAM). Some say soul and Supreme Soul are same or soul becomes Supreme Soul. Some say Soul gets merged in Supreme Soul. Some say human Guru is greater than God. Some say our forefather’s deeds/actions have effect on us. Some say man takes birth in animal species. Some say it is after taking birth in 84 lakh species a soul gets human birth. The knowledge available is confusing. There is no logic that explains what they speak. Here we explain everything logically.
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