Santosa Yoga/surf Retreat Mexico.The source of discernment by B.K.S Iyengar

Yoga again makes an important distinction between intelligence and mind. The specific quality of mind is cleverness. All people are clever compared to other forms of life.Yoga states that it is not the fact of being less clever compared to your neighbor that makes you stupid. Stupidity is the absence of intelligence. Stupidity can be behaving in a certain way or not learning from our mistakes. We are all stupid some times. Relatively speaking we are all clever at the time. A rocket scientist or professor of linguistics may be more stupid than a peasant in the fields or worker in a factory. He may well be much cleverer but that does not necessarily make him more intelligent . Let me give you an example Scientifically advanced nations invent many complex and terrible weapons. To do this they must be clever.Then they sell these weapons indiscriminately around the world and the arms end up in the hands of their enemies ,Is this clever or stupid? If stupid, did their stupidity consist of a sudden loss of cleverness or an absence of intelligence? Mind is certainly highly inventive but is that the same as being innovative? To innovate is to introduce the new to engage in a process of change.To invent is to produce a different variation of the old. This is a subtle and important distinction, for we often mix the two up. For example, if someone always me angry,I may express my anger in thousand different ways, inventing new words or actions to do so. The day I choose not to respond with anger, something new has taken place.This is innovation. to develop the intelligence that allows us to create a new relationship to our ego and our world. This new relationship is dependent on perceiving the world objectively and truthfully and on making choices, discerning what is best.

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