Our poor mind and intellect get riddled with wretched and worthless ideas that add no value. This must be reversed; we must be able to choose the thoughts and emotions that work for us.

Our intellect becomes an offering to God when it follows the path of higher knowledge.

Your daily sadhana is spiritual exercise for the health of your mind and intellect.

Surrendering the intellect means to think in accordance with the knowledge received from God via the medium of the scriptures and the bona fide Guru.

Good books seed our intellect with wisdom. They widen the scope of our thinking and make us better informed.

Sadhana means to counter the mind’s natural disposition by the power of our intellect. We must force the mind against its lower nature to harbour divine emotions.

Knowledge that is forgotten when required is useless. Hence, for knowledge to be implemented, it must always remain with us. This requires manan, which means revising the knowledge in our intellect.

Scientists estimate that we use only three percent of our mental and intellectual potential. The rest is dissipated because of lack of focus. Hence, we must attentively cultivate the fine art of controlling our mind.