Liberate the Intellect

SHRI SHRI ANANDAMURTI





Only when an entity attains liberation -whether in the physical or subtle sphere -its natural development takes place. You may say that intuition is more valuable than intellect. Perhaps you're right. But the fact is that intuition is generally of the spiritual world, whereas the domain of intellect is both of the physical as well as subtle worlds. In the process of evolution, when the ego, part of the elementary mind, has a greater area than that of the subtle mind, then, the enlarged area of aham ì tattva is called Buddhi or intellect.When the existential `i' feeling or mahattattva becomes larger in area than the aham ì tattva, then the enlarged area of existential `i' feeling is called Bodhi or intuition. Intuition establishes the link between the physical and subtle worlds, thereby guiding us along the path of spirituality .
How does one liberate the intellect? Intuition is an inborn faculty , so no effort is necessary for its liberation. When individuals develop some kind of `i' feeling after coming in contact with matter, then that initial stage of undeveloped mind is termed the citta.And when there arises a subtler `i' feeling in the citta which does something more than merely establish a link with matter, that is, which acquires the capacity to direct matter according to its own desire, it is termed buddhi or intellect. With intellect, people have made hundreds of scientific discoveries and have learnt much from the practical world.