Intellect and intelligence

 

The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything." - Swami Chinmayananda.

 

One may wonder what relevance the above quotation has when discussing​ about the topic intellect.

 

First, we need to know what we mean by intellect /intelligence.

 

That’s why even the most well-meaning and super intellectual giants if they fail to grasp reality as it is without any preconceived frames of references end up becoming frustrated /depressed and desperate because very often there are numerous things /events/persons that happen to deliver things which are beyond any intellectual analysis or appropriation.

 

https://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2019/08/intellectual.html?m=0

 

 

The possibilities that exist between, beneath and beyond ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ are numerous for intellect to grab​ and give a name or label.

 

I remember vaguely reading a translation of a Zen poem titled ‘The logic of non-intellectual reality’ if I happen to somehow get it I shall share it [I think it was in one issue of

 

Thought provoking article and comments. 

 

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/super_intelligent-humans-are-coming

 

 

Not only the article but most of the comments too, prod one to put lots of things in the cauldron of the thinking and understanding and churn out and observe the reactions, relevance, and relationship of all those things.  

 

The following is the selection of a much-generalized version of some of the things that come to my mind which I feel one can drop inside  that cauldron and wait and watch the churning process and the outcome.

 

 

Thoughts, information and /or knowledge of /in various domains, intellect, conscious awareness, perception, tools of perception, logic, reason, evaluations, purpose of evaluations, tools of evaluations, understanding and application of understanding, social values, social interactions, individual and/or collective emotions/feelings, psychology, cultural contexts, ideological identities which influence that very thought process, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, scientifically established facts, intelligent questioning, attitudes, willingness and ability to understand and solve problems, bio-chemical components  of human beings and /or some other species as well, application of  highest physical laws etc.

 

INTELLIGENCE

 

Innate or inherent and 

Nurtured

Talent that

Evaluates

Links of

Lasting

Interconnectivity in 

General in

Everyone and everything that

Nicely

Churns up in and comes alive in

Evolutionary process of everything.