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5. Vijnan (thinking scientifically) 6. Uha (estimating) 7. Apoha (imagination)
8. Tatvabhinivesh (resolution of doctrines) Now, we shall discuss these qualities of intelligence one by one. Listen to me with concentration. Keep looking at me. Do not look this side and that side. Now, lend me your ears !
The first quality of intelligence mentioned here is the desire to hear discourses on the scriptures. This is the meaning of Sushrusha. This action of desiring is done by the intelligence or the intellect. Here, we should understand the power of the intellect as intelligence because we are now concerned with the question of understanding doctrines. That quality which enables us to understand doctrines is intelligence. You should attain that awakening from those who are enlightened and spiritually awakened. You must approach such spiritual heads and say : "I desire to attain a knowledge of tatvas”. You must express your desire thus”.
From the Audience : We think that we have this quality in us.
Maharajashri : Yes. You have the first quality of intelligence in you if you come here to attain a knowledge of the tatvas by hearing tatvas. If you listen to discourses with concentration, it can be said that your intelligence possesses the second quality, also. The second quality of the intelligence mentioned here is shravan or hearing Listening with concentration. Absorption appears in you if you listen to discourses with the desire to listen to discourses.
THE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE IS THE MOTHER OF KNOWLEDGE
It is a great thing, if you entertain the desire to listen to discourses and to attain a knowledge of the soul and the tatvas. Those people whose minds are pervaded with hatred and paralysed by infatuation do not have a taste for listening to scrip
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