Aptavani-6
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What is an Intelligent Person Like?
Questioner: Who can be called intelligent?
Dadashri: The one who conducts his affairs in a manner
with the least clash in the home, in business or anywhere else is
called an intelligent person.
Otherwise, doing ‘panditai’ (the application of the
intellectual approach of scholars) to make the other person happy
is a form of ‘over-wiseness,’ meaning it is excessive use of the
intellect. Intellect should be used to help the other person.
If one drinks tea after eating a sweet desert and then
complains that there is no sugar in the tea, how can such a one
be called intelligent? And even if there is really no sugar in the
tea, there is no reason to fuss and make a scene. Why would
one want to yell and scare everyone at home over just a cup of
tea worth a quarter?
The one with intellect is the one who uses his intellect in
such a way that no one will experience any stress on his account.
If anyone ever experiences any stress and fear on his account,
then that intellect is wicked. Such wicked intellect binds terrible
demerit karma (paap). Therefore, one needs to understand the
role of intellect, does one not?
What good is the intellect that does not help anyone at
home and causes differences of opinion?
And a loss that occurs in business is the nature of doing
business, but a mistake must not occur in the process of mending