Every one of us has some power of intellect. Only
thing, some people are aware and use the same to achieve success in their
respective fields. Some others do not utilize because of their compulsions
related to socioeconomic constraints, namely less education, poor upbringing or
discouragement either from the parents or acquaintances. The persons, who do not use this power, their
whole lives revolve either around the acquisition or excessive fun and
frolics. As per Vedanta, these people
are classified always to hope for happiness and not like to be in the state of
sorrow. There is nothing wrong to acquire materialistic comfort and then enjoy
the same, but excessive urge for the same will diminish your instinct to search
the power of inbuilt intellect. Further, your excessive desire for acquisition
and enjoyment will make your life almost like non-living beings, who, of
course, have no choice to understand this power. Our world has many wonderful
things. So, the same must be enjoyed,
otherwise your mind will be definitely sad. Acquiring things is a must for our
existence and survival. Without the same, how could we live productively and
effectively in this world? Today, to
offset competition and to beat others in the race, we have to use a computer,
cell phone and many other sophisticated gadgets. In primitive days, we used to
manage and depend on fire. All these developments due to technological
advancement have made our lives simplified, but for that, one has to utilize
his power of intellect. We would be
treated as illiterates even we are academically brilliant, if we are not able to use these gadgets.
The acquisition and enjoyment are part of our life. But we have to understand the fact that
acquisition and enjoyment should not engulf us and we should not be addicted,
so that our behavior altogether gets changed.
For example, many people eat bananas after a meal, which they say it is
good for health. But if we only take
bananas every day, what would be the consequence? Simply, we would get fed up sooner or later. Further, we will be deprived from getting
proper nutrition, which is possible to obtain from other foods. Many times,
people talk of their tiredness of working time gossips, parties, fashionable
clothes, holidays and many other comforts. Why? Because after carrying out
these activities and acquiring different amenities for a long time, they don’t bring
enjoyment anymore. Also, the above pattern
of life may bring an adverse effect on character and life. So, if you are busy only to acquire for
enjoyment, the same will cause problems. Needless to say, to increase your lifestyle,
you have to acquire, but you have to ensure its proper utilization. You must
remember that acquisition is not permanent, but our character is. What we possess does not provide a blissful
sleep, but the character does.
A character can only induce the power of intellect.
Intellect is the power of discrimination.
As stated above, all of us have this power at varying degrees. With your effort, you can further develop
it. The discretionary power provides you
the difference between good and bad, right and wrong, integrity and dishonesty,
love and hate and literacy and illiteracy.
Your power of intellect propels your mind to accept the path of moral
living and spiritual path. The mind in
all of us is like a child. It will
always ask for more. No sooner, one desire
is satisfied, it asks for the fulfillment of another need. It has no wish to guide us for any
discrimination to understand the effects and causes of our desires. The gratification needs to be fulfilled. It
is where the role of intellect comes into play.
It is able to discriminate, to consider the effects and guide us to choose taking actions as
appropriate it can be.
The mind has no static role. It is completely under the control of the
intellect provided you try to use this power. Most people have a misconception
about the mind. It wants something and keeps on wanting to allure us to
accomplish many other things at any cost. At times, the mind may put you in a
dilemma, what to do or what not to do and in this process your mind may force
you to ignore every other thing, which might be the correct one for a
particular situation. And this is the
problem in our lives. We tend to forget
everything and like to remain busy in
the pursuit of acquisition and artificial happiness. You must appreciate that
apart from these activities, many other things are available in life. In that
many, the real and true happiness lies.
We need to expand our vision to see those things, which will provide you
that elusive happiness. The mere acquisition and enjoyment cannot provide the
same. Remember, human life is being
designed for higher vision. You have to cultivate a habit of getting awareness
of this vision and for that you need to hone your intellect, power. You need to go beyond your family members to include higher ideals, moral living and noble
thoughts so as to identify the reason why people are not happy. Once you are able to identify the same and
take the right actions, exercising the power of intellect what you have already
had and you are putting more efforts to
acquire further; you will be always happy. This is the benchmark how to
increase your power of intellect.
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