Bagavath Path | Interest and IntellectBagavath Path engiisn 6¢ “It is the responsibility of the mind to give you alternatives. Cr ORUC CuuC Gr kode oom ued a) importance to our actions is our intellect. We should step into our actions COM RG eet encore cea uct cuss eS e a Sri Bagavath's 2-day Enlightenment Retreat has been organized in Salem in July 2018. Venue : Sri Bagavath Bhavan, Foothills of Jarugumalai, Kodambakkadu, Periya Goundapuram, Karipatti (PO), Salem — 636106. Date : 14-Jul-2018 to 15-Jul-2018 Sunday Time : Saturday Morning 8.00 am to Sunday after noon 3.00 pm Participants of this retreat can come on Friday evening itself and stay at Sri Bagavath Bhavan. We request you to inform in advance about your arrival. Expense share: Rs.1000/= per head. Those who are unable to share the expenses may apply separately. Please come... Attainment Clarity of Enlightenment... - There is separate accommodation facility available for men and women. -As the accommodation is limited to only 50 participants, itis necessary to book in advance Modes of Advance Booking M.O, D.D (or) Cheque : Senders of these can draw in favour of Alc Sri Bagavath Mission, Salem and send to us. reese cca Direct Payment : Direct payments can be made to Book Pies nee Ure HDFC bank Sri Bagavath Mission, ne ic No : 1590762000075 acta) NEFT IFSC ; HDFC0001590 Seen cara Car Stost Branch Sel Perera r) ‘ar Street Branch, Salem. cee cr en cy " Ammapettai, Salem -3. Ne Cell No: 9994205880, eee 12 9789165555. Ye * Bagavalh VAP. SHARAVANAN, 99942 05880 | Dr. N. KAILASAM, 94432 90559 | K.S. JEEVAMANI, 97891 65555 31, Ramalingasamy Street, Ammapet, Salem - 636 003. Tamilnadu India www. pravaagam.org www.sribagavath.org E-mail : stibagavathmission@gmail.com This book Designed by : SRI ESPARI GRAPHICS, Salem-3. Cell : 90926 46260, 98651 34075We would be happy, if we got the thing that we wished and interested. If wish is fulfilled, there is happiness. If not, there is sorrow. ‘Life is based on what you think and interested’ —itis said like this. Whatis intellect -wisdom? Is there no job for wisdom here atall? iswisdom something thatis dry? Even if wisdom instructs you to do a job, will we be able to do that job properly if we are not, interested to do that? Letus take a student, for example. He wishes to become a doctor but his father wants him to be an Engineer. Now, what should the student do? Should he fulfil his wish or his father’s? itis only the student who has to study. Not the father. It is only the student who is going to work afterhis studies, notthe father. Here, what would be right? To fulfil the student's wish or the father's? Ilike to drink coffee. You like ice-cream. Should you drink coffee to fulfil my wish or should | eat ice-cream to fulfil your wish? Is it not true that it would be good to act on ‘one's own wish? How should we act? How should we enable ourinterest? How should we enable our wisdom? ‘Whats the connection between the two? Does the interest direct the Intellect? Ordoes the Intellect direct the interest so that they are fulfilled? - How does the interest function? Itis usual to denote the wishes in the name of mind. Ourmind acts as wishes. Ourwisdom denotes the intellect Should the mind cooperate with Intellect or Bagavath Path Sei Bagavath should the Intellect cooperate with the mind? Let us take an example. You have a motorbike and want to buy a car. You look at all the cars running on the road. You like a particular car very much. Now what is the responsibility of the intellect? Your intellect also cooperates with your wish -mind. Your intellect involves in the work of fulfiling your wish by focussing on how to make the money to buy the car. You will fulfil your mind with the help of intellect. You get your car that you wished for. You become happy. If our intellect does not support fulfilment of our wish and we have to live with the motor bike alone, what would happen? We will start hating life. You will get frustrated with life. You will start longing for the car whenever you see people with car. Let us suppose you want to study medicine, But your father wants you to become an Engineer. You are not ready to listen to his advice. You get a seat in a medical college as you wished. You get admitted in the college happily and study happily. Your intellect also works along with yourwish. Similarly, we wanted to buy a car. We bought the car with the help of our intellect. Isitall about this? Problem is going to starthereafter. What problem? Was that not right to have purchased the car that we liked? Was that not right to have joined medical college? ‘All that was good. But what happens next is Pan)