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And according to her, pefection is attained by drawing a fine line between Manas and Buddhi. "Your inner personality shapes your outer one so first of all you have to understand what's going in there. Only then will you have a command on your actions." Manas or the mind acts on impulse and Buddhi or the intellect has the power to discern.
Mind or Manas she says is like a child and Buddhi or intellect is like an adult. "Intellect is getting rusted because people use their mind all the time. They use their intelligence to attain success and not intellect and that is the reason why even after getting the so called success everyone is unhappy," she says.
Laying emphasis on developing intellect she suggests that human intellect is developed with human values. “You have to introspect and deal with your inner evils," she says.
Meditation and yoga however to her are not the ways to develop intellect as she thinks meditating without a calm mind is premature and Yoga is overrated.
"Meditating without a calm mind is like putting a cart in front of a horse and then expecting the horse to move ahead. First of all you have to deal with the forces in you, which are mainly the unfulfilled desires. And this you can only do by reasoning and by developing your intellect,” she says.
Therefore she thinks that it is your inner state that shapes your outer body not your outer body that can change your inner state so unless your inner state is calm and composed you can't function well.
An affirmation of her this belief reflects in the discourses she gives on various occasions. Organised by the Vedanta cultural foundation these discourses aim at guiding people how to get contentment and success together. "So unlike the followers of other religions an average Hindu is never aware of his or her scriptures and that is the irony of the whole situation,” she says.
The first and foremost aim of these discourses is to make the people aware of the treasure of gratification that's there in the Bhagavad Gita. “The attainment of a perfect life will only be possible if one goes through the Bhagvad Geeta," she says.
(Discourses on Supreme Being Chapter 15 of Bhagavad Gita would be given by Sunandaji at Balgandharva Rang Mandir, J.M. Road from January 10-13 from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m)


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