09 Aug 2023
[Ms. Geetha Lahari asked:- It is told that intelligence is a very powerful faculty of awareness since it takes decisions by doing logical analysis. Para prakruti is individual soul/chit which is associated with storage of memory /chittam as You said. In such case, why is paraa prakruti called the best and not apara prakruti, which contains intelligence?]
Swami replied:- Paraa prakruti or individual soul is having both capacities, which are the property of awareness (identifying anything) and the property of memory (citī saṃjñāne smaraṇe ca) that is accumulated from millions of births as strong solidified ideas, called vasanaas or samskaras or gunas based on their increasing strength. Hence, paraa prakruti influences even intelligence to a large extent and takes the final decision in implementation. This is the reason why you are unable to implement a correct decision taken by intelligence. Intelligence is weaker compared to individual soul or paraa prakruti. Mind and ego are not as powerful as intelligence and fate of these both need not be told separately. Hence, apara prakruti is weaker than para prakruti and we mean apara prakruti as ego, mind, and intelligence only. This means we are referring these three only in apara prakruti and not the other very very powerful five elements.
Q. Will para prakruti change in any birth?
[Ms.Bhanu Samykya asked:- If this is the case, the knowledge obtained from the Sadguru in this birth is also defeated by para prakruti, which means there is no question of change of para prakruti in any birth?]
Swami replied:- After all, para prakruti/ individual soul is a bundle of stored ideas. The acquired knowledge in this birth is also in the form of concepts or ideas only. A diamond can be cut by another diamond. The stored knowledge can be modified by the acquired knowledge in this birth. Therefore, the present birth on this earth is called as karma loka, which means by practicing the strongest knowledge acquired, the stored knowledge can be destroyed in this birth. Since the acquired knowledge in this birth from the Sadguru is always true with infinite strength, you can easily destroy the old stored knowledge and reformation is possible.
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