Gnowly Matrix Learning—Intelligence & Enlightenment
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2023-02-13

Namaste.
Recently we had a comment on one of our videos, and the commenter was saying, well, there's a difference between intellect, intelligence and
enlightenment. And that enlightenment is generally thought of as being
beyond intelligence, beyond intellect, beyond the mind.
And while this is true, we also see that, practically speaking, the people
who actually attain complete enlightenment, fourth path and beyond, are
geniuses. I can think of so many just off the top of my head.
Ramana Maharshi Śrīla Prabhapāda Śrī Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Parmahansa Yogananda—I mean, the list goes on and on.
It that these were not only enlightened people, and there are many that you
haven't heard of that are also geniuses, who can discourse effortlessly on
any subject, not only spiritual, but of course, actually the only subject is
enlightenment. Everything else feeds into it, is related to it, is part of
the approach to it.
So if you know enlightenment, if you have realized the self, you know
everything. I mean, you have the potential of knowing everything with a very small effort.
This is intelligence, a specific kind of intelligence, not the kind of
intelligence that we see in the world where people's mind jump from one
thing to another like a monkey.
The mind tries to achieve satisfaction by becoming attached and clinging to
one thing, and then when it doesn't get it, it jumps and clings to the next
thing and the next thing and the next thing.
And this can happen so fast, within a fraction of a second that you're not
even aware of it.

Did you ever get up to go get something in another room, and then when you
walk into the next room, you realize you forgot what it is
anyway? This is called loss of intelligence due to change of context.
And this happens all the time.
Why? Because we are not operating with the proper kind of intelligence.
What is the proper kind of intelligence is described in Bhagavad Gita,
chapter 2.41–44.

"Here, O Son of Kuru, there is one thought of a resolute nature.
Many branched and endless are the thoughts of the irresolute.
No conviction of a resolute nature is formed in the mind of those who are
attached to pleasures and power, and whose minds are drawn away by the
flowery speech which the unwise enamored of Vedic utterances declaring there
is. Nothing else, full of desire, having swarga as their gold utter a speech
which promises birth as the reward of actions and which abounds in specific
acts for the attainment of pleasure and power.
O son of Pṛthā."