Intelligence...
Hari Om
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Namaste,
Have you given any thought to this thing we call Intelligence? What are your thoughts here?
Here's a few ideas for consideration - please feel free to participate. We all are users of this quality, what's your opinion on this?
This intellience is also considered Dhi (luminous) shakti, also agni tattva within us. That is, Agni is considered the first deva born in us, this intelligence. The graha's of Jupiter (guru) and Mercury (Budha) are karaka's ( or indicators/significators) of this quality.
Some think we as human beings have cornered the market on this quality. Our we sole owners of this? I have been taught that all things are the expression of intelligence and all things express this quality. Intelligence is much more then knowing square roots, how to compose a sentence, how chemical reactions work and rationalization of principles, or logic in life.
My teacher says this Intelligence at its fundamental level is pure organizing power and inherent in it is the impulse to create. I see this every day when I view the natural universe around me. This intelligence is the core of creation. It is so natural and subtle it resides in every fiber of this creation.
To think a 30 meter (100 ft) tree comes from a seed. This seed is the 'desire' and the earth, rhe surroundings support this desire ( water, food, light, osmosis, photo synthesis, etc) all working to form the growth of a tree to reach up to the sky. All the laws of nature all the forces, all under the management of this intelligence and perhaps are the laws themselves. What intelligence is at work here with no need for a calculator, a measuring stick?
Animals demonstrate this intelligence daily. Some argue that animals are not intelligent, but operate under instinct. Exactly! This instinct is intelligence at its core level. This is just like our autonomic nervous system - it operates by instinct, its inherent intelligence that resides within the body, in the cells, in DNA.
Then comes the argument - well can an animal paint, write a song, compose a sonnet. Obviously not. This expression of intelligence has different levels of manifesting. In us we may have it express itself in a different manner then in say a lion or rabbit. Yet think of how this intelligence manifests in the lion's smell, stealth, strength and speed. Much different then in our abilities.
We are made up of ~ 100 trillion cells (+/-) so say the scientists. Just think if we have to manage them consciously. They say of these 100 trillion cells roughly 10% are pure human, the others are all the bacteria that live off of us.
So, let say we do not manage at the cellular level . Trying managing digestion and the transfer of energy, fluids, oxygen to the blood, just that would be a feat in itself. This is the expression of this organizing power, this intelligence.
This same intelligence that operates in us, also guides the creation of stars, the expansion and rotation of galaxies, the force of gravity, speed of light, black holes. The physics behind all this, the rules, the guardrails per se is intelligence.
My teacher says pure intelligence = pure consciousness. When one is established in Moksha then one is operating form this Pure Intelligence level. One need no longer drive as one gives up this notion to the intelligence that manages the cosmos. This is the notion of doing His work, when enlightened. We then operate from a level that is congruent with, and expressed in, the universe we see. Perhaps this is the blooming of 'let thy will be done' .
pranams,
Last edited by yajvan; 17 November 2007 at 07:42 AM.
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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