The Human Intellect Is Fooling You – Inspirational Video by Swami Mukundananda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0
Full Text: 1 this intellect is so important in relation to what we do, where we go, how far we rise, what we achieve, then it's important to have the best knowledge in the intellect, however our intellect is material and because it is material it has got inherent defects that are crippling our progress on the path https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=0 2 these inherent defects Maharishi Patanjali in the Yoga Darshan he called it Panch-Klesvidya, Asmita, Rag, Dvesh, Abhinivesh - see https:tinyurl.com/2ylfbhmo for details - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=37 3 in the Srimad Bhagavatam Ved Vyas, he also says that in the materially conditioned state our intellect has got reversed and he calls this "Viparyay" (विपर्यय), Viparyay means reversal of the intellect “verse” what is the reversal of the intellect that has taken place ? for viparyay meaning see https:tinyurl.com/2chlp4o8 First point is the A-Nitya (temporary), but the things we are seeing them as Nitya (permanent), the people whom we are going to leave one day, the objects that we are going to leave for when we go on our final yatra, these are all temporarily connected to us but we are not considering that, our intellect says this is mine, he is mine, she is mine, they will always be mine - now that is the what the saints remind us again and again that you are going to go alone nothing is going to go with you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=51 4 as one kavi said दुनिया में खूब कमाया क्या हीरे क्या मोती क्या करें यारों कफन में जेब नहीं होती I earned so much but the coffin of the shroud that covers the dead body when it is taken on the final yatra doesn't have pockets, so I could not take anything with me. So the fact is we are going to leave this whole world behind and go alone, so this world is Anitya, temporary but is that our perspective also ? We are giving it so much of importance because of the "Viparyay" (विपर्यय) of our intellect, the reversal, and the saints tell us, Kripalu Ji Maharaj says जग में रहो ऐसे गोविंद राधे धर्मशाला में यात्री रहे जो बता दे live in this world like a yatri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=142 5 a traveler lives in the dharamshala or a motel for example so if you go to live in a motel let us say that you have gone to Las Vegas and you are spending one night in the motel, are you concerned about you know the shade of the paint on the walls is not the best possible, let me see what can I do to get a better shade on the walls, and there's a stitch that has come off from the curtain let me call them to get it mended, you care nothing for it you know it's all temporary, tomorrow morning I'm going to leave it all behind, how does it matter I just have to pass this one night so the saints tell us that you live in this world with that same attitude of the intellect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=229 6 in fact Akbar when he made his Fatehpur Sikri his new capital, he put a quotation there which some people say he got it from some Christian Missionary, the quotation is that “the world is like a bridge cross over it but build no house on it" but we want to build bigger bigger bigger bigger houses what about the house within us all (our mind) - that is the one that's going to go along, the material treasure will be left behind, what will go with us is the spiritual treasures we have earned, how much of your time are you allotting to earning spiritual wealth and how much of your time are you allotting to your material comforts and adjustments of your material situation compare and you will realize how defective our intellect is so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=292 7 we have taken the temporary world as eternal and “Anatma” the second point, he says Anatma, the non self, which is the body, we are taking this as the self we all know that we are the Eternal Soul, that knowledge is available to everyone and yet we are not acting from that platform, our entire works are from the platform of the body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=368 8 that is why supposing you tell somebody you must have informed your friends and relatives that Swami ji satsang has begun come and hear it and what did your friend say, I don't have time because I come very late from office. You don't have time for what, for attending the satsang ? but you have got time for everything else, 24 hours. Now that same person who says I don't have time, supposing he falls sick, the doctor says you have got hepatitis, you need to do 15 days of complete bed rest else your liver will get damaged, that person who was saying I don't have time, he is lying in his bed for 15 days, you didn't go to your office for 15 days, you know, if I do that my liver will get damaged so for the sake of your liver you could take out 15 days and for the sake of your own soul you had to go to the satsang but those two hours appeared too heavy - why because our intellect does not realize that we are not the body we are the Eternal Soul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=417 9 and then the third point he says “Dukhesu” we see the apparent pleasures of the world are actually a source of misery, we are confusing them to be true happiness. Many of you have got children, is it a very easy task to raise children ? oh Swamiji what a big project it is and in America it's even bigger because I see out here parents after school – as when the child is small you have to go and drop him to school and you have to bring him from school and then after school now Swami I have to take him for the Kumon class (Maths & other classes), now he has started chess I have to take him there and he has to go for karate so many things all day long the parents are running with the children here and there and they're doing it for so many years and at the end what happens ? the child says father you don't know anything or the daughter-in-law comes and she says you are not supposed to love your parents so much, you have to love me, now the wedge is created and the only reciprocation the parents get from the child is that on Father's Day they receive a card in America Happy Father's Day my duty is over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=504 10 so was there any real pleasure there but the confusion was oh this is real happiness - if only I can have a child I'll be so happy. So Ved Vvas says this is the Viparyay of our intellect that the Dukh of this world we are confusing it to be Sukh – so now our intellect is defective if we lead our life on the basis of our intellect, will we succeed in reaching the Divine goal ? No, in that situation we need help from a higher intellect, you take help in the world as well if there is, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=596 11 suppose you have been sued in some car accident now you don't know any law your knowledge of law is zero, so you go to an advocate, the Advocate says don't worry I have understood the case, now if that opposing advocate asks you this question, you give this answer if he asks this question, give this answer, for anything else keep quiet, now he's working according to the intellect of the advocate and he succeeds, he wins the case, the other advocate says this person is pakka, I could not budge him from his stance, so how did that person succeed ? by taking help of a higher intellect. Same way in the spiritual realm as well that is the advice given to us, don't rely on your intellect, our intellect has got Viparyay, then surrender your intellect to God. Arjun, surrender your intellect to Me, do as I tell you to do, like you took the advocate’s advice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=650 12 like you take a doctor's advice you don't know any medicine you go to a doctor, doctor saheb I've got this pain and this problem and this malady and this illness, the doctor says all right get all the tests done and come then he analyzes, I have got the problem, I am recommending to you this medicine take two drops in one tablespoon of water three times a day you will be cured, you have to do it for two months so we use the doctor's intellect all right, two drops in one tablespoon of water three times a day. Now if we start using our intellect Mr doctor you know you said that keep taking it for two months just two drops, I want to get cured faster let me take the whole bottle today, do you think it's going to work ? you have to surrender your intellect to the doctor, he's the specialist in medical science, Similarly in the spiritual realm, you have to, if you wish to succeed, give up the pride of the intellect that is the undoing of us Indians on the spiritual path, we all think we are experts, in a train journey in India you just raise the topic of spirituality and see how everybody's volume goes up everybody's the expert on spirituality but that is not the proper way to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=731 13 Shri Krishna says surrender your intellect to Me. Now how will we surrender our intellect to Him, by accepting the knowledge that He has given by fitting this in our head through the scriptures and through the guru, the teacher, so when we guide our life in accordance with the teachings of the scriptures and the guru then we have surrendered our intellect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_7b8ouMl0&t=817 Standby link (in case youtube link does not work): The Human Intellect Is Fooling You - Inspirational Video by Swami Mukundananda.mp4