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expressed within me. One can only become omniscient when
one becomes completely free from intelligence.
Types Of Intellect
There are two kinds of intellect : (1) Right intellect (samyak
buddhi). (2) Wrong intellect (viprit buddhi).
The right intellect is the intellect which is on the right path
and this intellect can only be acquired when one becomes Self-
realized. Thereafter this intellect will show what is right. It will
show things exactly as they are. Only rarely does one attain the
right intellect.
The wrong intellect is always to be found in the absence
of right intellect. Wrong intellect means it is wrong from the
perspective of attaining liberation. It is the nature of wrong
intellect to strengthen the foundation of worldly life and it will
never help one towards liberation. The intellect wanders around
only in the worldly life constantly assessing benefits and losses
for the worldly life, never for liberation.
As one’s intellect increases, so does one’s internal suffering.
If a mother of a two-year-old toddler is on her deathbed, he
will not be affected. He will still be laughing and playing, whereas
her twenty-year-old son will have so much internal suffering. As
the intellect increases, so does the internal suffering. These
laborers have no worries. They sleep soundly everyday, whereas
these wealthy businessmen worry constantly. They do not even
sleep soundly as night. Why? This is because they have greater
intellect. Internal suffering is proportional to the amount of the
intellect. The higher the intellect, the greater is the internal suffering.
Where there is intellect, there will always be the ego of
‘I am the doer’. That is precisely why one worries. It is the
intellect that keeps us separate from the Self.
Lord Krishna has referred to the intellect as vyabhicharini