FIELDS OF MIND & INTELLECT
Question raised by Manish ji to all of us:
Q)"What are the fields of working for the Mind and for the Intellect?"
Manish ji’s reply: [as understood by me]
The mind is a flow of thoughts. It is constantly in sankalp-vikalp. The Gnyaanendriyas pass
the sensory perceptions to the mind, which receives information, and performs “sankalp” or
“vikalp” based on the past experiences.
The past experiences is called the store house or ‘chitt’. For example, if I am tasting a liquid,
how do I know that it is water or juice? The sense organ has communicated to the mind. The
mind, with reference to past experiences stored in chitt, infers that it is water and not juice.
The intellect is “nischayaatmika”. When the sankalp-vikalp is cleared upon, then it is the
intellect.
So, the Mind works on experiences, and the Intellect or ideas go beyond!
Mind, Chitt (memory), Intellect, Ahankaar are just different aspects of the antahakaran.
When a seeker applies Spiritual practices for the purification of his antahkaran, he can
consider mind & chitt to be one functional entity and intellect & ahankaar to be one
functional entity. Transcending the mind and chitt through Spiritual disciplines, he waits in
the realm of intellect & ahankaar, that can be transcended through ‘Knowledge’.
Hari Aum,
Aadya