Intellect versus Ego :

 Mind is made up  of four constituents:


The first is the receiving mind, which receives all impulses and impacts from the external world. It just receives, like an antenna.

·        What sifts these pieces of information and analyses them is the buddhi,                 
           the intellect. It is the discerning function of the mind.

·        There is cittaM, the storage part of the mind,

·        The agent of all these activities is the ahamkAra part of the mind, which               
          by its very nature  possesses authority over all actions of the other parts    
          
          of the mind and therefore constitutes the EGO of man.


These four parts are together called the mind, very often in the literature, without care being taken to distinguish the different functions. The physical framework through which all of them work is of course the brain. B ut just as the body is the physical basis for the soul which is a subtle entity ‘residing’ in it, so also the brain is only a physical basis for the mind. Mind is too subtle to be put into any physical framework.  But the mind has a power, just as Godhead has a power which is generally called Shakti. This power of the mind is mostly the power of the intellect to decide on a course of action, to fight within itself its own pulls and pushes, mostly prompted, influenced and monitored by the other part of the mind, viz., ahamkAra.   This power is Will-power. It is the power of the will of Man.


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