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The Mind & Intellect
We are all constantly doing actions which
are propelled by the mind. The mind consists of passions and
emotions, feelings and impulses. We also have another aspect called
the intellect. The functions of the intellect are thinking, reflecting, reasoning, discriminating and
judging. It analyses and distinguishes between pairs of opposites.
We feel tired or fatigued
without energy because we
usually react very emotionally without the backing of the intellect.
In other words, there is no problem if we were to act emotionally with the
backup of the intellect. The problem arises when we act only with
the emotional mind and not with the intellect. Most of the time our actions are propelled only
by the desires of the mind, our emotions. There is no problem in
that, until an action is done which is strongly propelled by
the emotional mind but is not supported by the intellect.
A simple
example is eating a chocolate.
 The
emotional mind desires to eat it , but if the intellect says you are
diabetic and do not eat it, there is a conflict. Either the
strong mind or the strong intellect will win the war and we can
pretty much guess the outcome of such an action. The conflict
between mind and intellect spoils the peace in life. Peace reigns when actions are done without a conflict
between the mind and intellect.
The cause of all disease is ignorance. Ignorance is the mind
acting/reacting without the "supervision"
of the intellect.
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