MIND AND INTELLECT:

[Guest guest]

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

MIND AND INTELLECT: The mind comprises impulses, feelings, likes and

dislikes. It behaves like a child. The intellect is the thinking

equipment, which reasons, discriminates and judges. It is the adult

in you. The adult must control the child. The mind may also be

compared to the flowing water and the intellect to its banks. The

banks control and direct the flow of water in the field. The land gets

irrigated as long as the water flows within the banks.But when the

banks are weak and yield to the pressure of water and the water loses

its course, the blessing turns into curse. Similarly, when the desires

of mind are too many and powerful, and the intellect is weak, the

individual yields to the pressure of the mind, resulting in

disastrous consequences. Hence the way to control the desires is to

strengthen the intellect, pitch up an ideal and work for it. – Swami

Parthasrathy