1 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:09,520 Welcome everyone. Today I'm speaking to you from 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,200 Prague. We're staying with our hosts 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,920 here and we have a wonderful week of lectures and sharing 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,720 lined up for the city, including a retreat over the weekend where 5 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:28,720 we have 42 people joining from across Europe and many are 6 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,360 coming for different sources of inspiration. 7 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,320 For some it is about finding the purpose of life, for others it 8 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:42,520 is about reducing stress. For many it is gaining clarity 9 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:48,080 of thinking and that has been the subject of the last few 10 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,360 sessions. What is the vital role of the 11 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,120 intellect? And in the past few sessions 12 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,320 we've spoken about how crucial it is for relationships, for 13 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:06,120 strengthening and substantiating our faith, giving it reason, 14 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,720 giving it moderation. We also spoke about how 15 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:18,520 important it is for objectivity and then in the previous session 16 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,680 about maintaining inspiration and achievement of success. 17 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,520 Now, if this intellect is so valuable, and the more we speak 18 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,720 about it, the more we're understanding or gaining an idea 19 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,280 of perhaps we need to start investing some time on 20 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,800 development of this intellect. But if it's so essential for 21 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,960 humanity, why has it been neglected? 22 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:52,520 Why has it been ignored? Why has it been able to fall to 23 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:58,120 the level it is now? And the main reason for this is 24 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:04,640 simply because humanity mistakes intellect for intelligence. 25 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,560 Being smart, being brilliant, having a lot of information does 26 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,320 not equate to having an intellect. 27 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,440 And the substance of this book, The Fall of the Human Intellect 28 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:23,160 by A Parthasarathy, is explaining this distinction. 29 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,160 And if we understand this distinction, we can see what the 30 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:32,800 limits of intelligence are, but also what we need to do to 31 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,880 strengthen the intellect, and how we cannot mistake 32 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,040 intelligence for doing the job only an intellect can do. 33 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:46,160 Just as how we have in our philosophical Sundays. 34 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:51,360 In these Sunday wisdom sessions, we've become very clear that 35 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,560 success does not equal happiness. 36 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:01,520 Monetary, financial well-being or a good balance statement does 37 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,680 not equate into fulfillment or happiness. 38 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,160 We've understood this. Even though most of the world 39 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:11,480 says let me get wealthy and then I'll take care of happiness as 40 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,280 if the one equates into another, it does not. 41 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,520 Similarly, intelligence does not equate into intellect. 42 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,480 So today we're going to go through the differences and how 43 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:32,640 intelligence can do some aspects, yes, but aspects that 44 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:37,040 only the intellect we can can be used, we are going to highlight 45 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,520 those as well. So we begin with understanding 46 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:47,360 what is intelligence? How would you define 47 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:48,600 intelligence? Anyone? 48 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:05,040 What is intelligence? Information, Information, Great. 49 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:08,920 Good education. A good education. 50 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:15,680 I think it's processing things and making connections. 51 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,360 Processing and making connections. 52 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,399 So I'm going to come back to that one, Michael. 53 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:30,640 Let's start with intelligence being information, data, 54 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,760 knowledge. And this is acquired from 55 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,120 external sources. So in order to be intelligent, 56 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,480 you need a source from outside that provides this information. 57 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:48,640 So that could be teachers, textbooks, universities. 58 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,600 So the first distinction is intelligence comes from an 59 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,840 external source. What about intellect? 60 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:02,880 Intellect is built from within. You can't get it from outside. 61 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,720 Nobody can develop an intellect for you. 62 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,080 Nobody can provide an intellect for you. 63 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:13,600 So even the Vedanta Academy where I have done a three-year 64 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,000 course and then subsequently another 20 years I've spent on 65 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,800 developing the intellect, it is not the place or the education 66 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:29,680 that develops the intellect. It is my own application to the 67 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,600 information that's shared in the Vedanta Academy. 68 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:36,400 So intellect has to be built from oneself. 69 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:42,280 Swami Patasarathi says intelligence is acquired from 70 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:49,960 external sources, schools and universities, while the 71 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:55,400 intellect is developed by oneself and this is the first 72 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:04,800 distinction. What is the usefulness of 73 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,720 intelligence of this information? 74 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,960 Why do schools and universities place such an accent, such an 75 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:21,320 emphasis on equipping an individual with information? 76 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:26,240 It gives your intellect more to work with. 77 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,560 It gives you intellect more to work with. 78 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,960 It doesn't means to make your living, it is a means to make 79 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,120 your living. Prepares you for external 80 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:45,440 comforts from external. From external challenges. 81 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,160 Yeah, again. So. 82 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,040 So we're going to draw the distinction there. 83 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:55,200 What it can do is that it can provide you with information, 84 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,360 and because you have a set of information that other people 85 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,360 don't have, people will come to you. 86 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,640 Why do we go to a doctor? We go to a doctor because a 87 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,520 doctor has knowledge of something that you're going 88 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,120 through, an illness, a disease, you don't know how to cure it. 89 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,800 A doctor has studied it, matches the symptoms, and then 90 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,520 prescribes the treatment. But all the doctor is doing 91 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:27,360 there is using the information, the pattern recognition of the 92 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,760 symptoms to what they've learned and giving you what they've 93 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,280 learned. So we use information as a way 94 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:42,800 to transact in life, for a way to earn a living and look at 95 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:44,600 that. The whole education system is 96 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,040 behind that. It's in giving you all this 97 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,200 information. And with this information you 98 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:50,800 can trade with others who are ignorant. 99 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,320 We go to a plumber. We call a plumber because we 100 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:56,600 don't know how to clear the pipes. 101 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,080 We call an electrician because we don't know how to fix the 102 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,720 light. We call perhaps a financial 103 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,960 advisor to manage our investments because we don't 104 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,520 know how to do it. If we have the knowledge of it, 105 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,480 we don't need the other person. Intelligence helps you make a 106 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:17,080 living, but you need an intellect to give you the 107 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,440 quality of life. What do you do with the wealth? 108 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:26,880 What do you do with the living? Many can earn wealth. 109 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:34,360 It takes an intellect to manage the wealth, maintain it, and 110 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:39,240 grow it. The first part you can do with 111 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,559 intelligence. So let's have a look at the 112 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,200 distinction between intellect versus intelligence. 113 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,600 And what we're trying to display in this distinction is that 114 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,840 intelligence is more external. It's not coming from within your 115 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:01,440 personality. It is not an aspect that is 116 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:08,960 using your ability to handle challenge, to process, to 117 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:14,120 understand. It remains at retaining of 118 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,880 information memory. Memory is not intellect. 119 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:24,840 Memory resides in the mind, but to access the memory, to analyze 120 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,440 the memory, to access the data, memorize the data. 121 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,440 Memorizing the data is intelligence, but the accessing 122 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,640 and the analysis of it is where the intellect comes in. 123 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,640 So have a look at this chart. On the left hand side we have 124 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:44,120 intelligence, on the right hand side we have intellect. 125 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:52,560 So think about it as external intelligence, internal intellect 126 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,480 on the left hand side, falling under intelligence. 127 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,480 We have knowledge, and with knowledge you can give beautiful 128 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:05,080 lectures, including this one. But just because I talk about 129 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,600 the intellect does not mean I have an intellect that can 130 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:14,680 manage my affairs in life. For that, I need wisdom, and 131 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,000 this is where wisdom and intellect are synonymous. 132 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,800 To the extent you've applied yourself to the information, to 133 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,400 the extent you've digested and reflected on your experiences 134 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,520 and made them part of your being, your understanding, then 135 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,080 only do you have wisdom. Otherwise, it's just knowledge. 136 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:40,200 It's as good as any computer or on ChatGPT, on clod, on Gemini. 137 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,520 It is not useful unless we've digested and used it. 138 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,880 Become it. The one is information 139 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,960 intelligence. But when you use that 140 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,480 information to make a change in you from inside, it becomes 141 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,760 transformation. Left hand side tuition, right 142 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:08,720 hand side intuition. 1 is sight. Again it's from external. 143 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:14,960 The other is insight. So one is to read the lines of a 144 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:22,880 book, of a play, of a lecture. You can read the lines, but as 145 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,800 William Shakespeare says in Hamlet, they are just words, 146 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,000 words, words. This is words. 147 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:35,240 It has no impact unless you take those words and you make it 148 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,480 inside. 1 is a lecture, the other is. 149 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:46,280 You live it. The one is theory, the other is 150 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:51,560 you practice. A reporter went up to Swamiji, 151 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:56,400 the author of the book, and she was trying to provoke Swamiji, 152 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,400 and she was asking a few challenging questions, but they 153 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,560 weren't challenges for this great thinker. 154 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:11,080 And she asked him, Swami, do you practice what you preach? 155 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:18,920 To which Swamiji answered, I only preach what I practice. 156 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:28,120 It's not one before the other. In philosophy, in Vedanta, you 157 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,840 do not know something unless you're living it. 158 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:39,520 You are not wise until it is shown in your actions, in your 159 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:43,920 deeds, in your understanding, in your personality, in your being. 160 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:53,960 There's a famous phrase in the Bhagavad Gita that says it is 161 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,720 not the sermons, it is not the words that communicate, that 162 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,240 educate. It is your being. 163 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,600 It is the way you walk, it is the way you act. 164 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:09,520 It is the way you interact. It is, and the phrases the self 165 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:15,160 unfolds the self, it means whatever is the development of 166 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,080 your personality, that is what speaks. 167 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,880 So now we go to a few aspects where we're going to analyze and 168 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:34,960 see how the intellect can be used. 169 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,800 And the intelligence does not really play a part there, if at 170 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,160 all. It can be a support, it can be 171 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,600 an aid, but it's the intellect's job to do these few aspects of 172 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:52,840 life. The first aspect is in decision 173 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:58,480 making. In decision making, the ability 174 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:04,520 to analyze the data and decide depending on the context, the 175 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:09,080 right amount, the right time, the right intensity. 176 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:10,920 That is the job of the intellect. 177 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,480 Intelligence is useful because you need the data. 178 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,200 So that's where intelligence can be a help. 179 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:25,680 But the intelligence by itself can lead to analysis paralysis. 180 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,840 Have you heard of this? You've got so much information, 181 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,360 you've got so much data, and unless you know the questions to 182 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:38,680 ask, unless you know the prompts for your own thinking, we don't 183 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:40,200 know what to do with all the data. 184 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,400 And this is what we're facing now, even with all these tools 185 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:51,960 that we have at our disposal with AI, no doubt there are some 186 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,800 incredible answers, there's some incredible processes and 187 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:01,680 information that's available. But the challenge is, and what 188 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,200 people are missing to really make use of the intelligence is 189 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:13,320 what prompt to ask for. We don't know the right command, 190 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:19,680 the right prompt to ask any of these models, the large language 191 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:25,120 models like Chatji, BT or Anthropic, we, we don't know 192 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:29,160 what to ask them to get what we need for the situation that 193 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:34,120 we're in. And because people have not 194 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,640 invested time in developing this intellect, you can see how we 195 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,800 would love to outsource our decision making. 196 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,600 And we're finding this, especially in the younger 197 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:53,400 generation, simple questions like what coffee to have when we 198 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,560 go into a coffee shop and we're asking ChatGPT, what coffee 199 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:04,360 should I order? And then a friend, maybe a 200 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:09,680 romantic friend, ask a question, Let me check with ChatGPT. 201 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,880 How should I reply? And we're seeing more and more 202 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,160 dependence on just basic human interaction. 203 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,000 But it lacks the context, it lacks the assessment of the 204 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,640 person, it lacks the situation. It lacks knowledge of how you 205 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:30,400 feel, what you're thinking, and therefore it cannot give you the 206 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,200 best information. Perhaps it could up to a point, 207 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,320 based on the information it has available, but you have so much 208 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,640 information, far, far more. And we could use it, no doubt, 209 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,360 as another source of information, another 210 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:47,120 perspective. But if we want to make quality 211 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:53,360 decisions, it is having a vision of what we want in life, what 212 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,320 kind of person we want to be, what kind of values we want to 213 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,840 have, and that no external source can give you. 214 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,000 We've got to know it for ourselves. 215 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:06,520 In fact, even if somebody does make a good suggestion, it could 216 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,920 be a family member, it could be a parent, perhaps on what career 217 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,880 to choose, what life partner to consider. 218 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:22,640 It will not work unless we take onus for that decision, unless 219 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,599 we process that point of view and make it our own. 220 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,640 If it's external and we just follow it, we will not get the 221 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,560 inspiration, the accountability, the motivation. 222 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:42,320 Therefore, Albert Einstein says intellectual growth should 223 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:47,080 commence at birth and seize only a death. 224 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:52,120 It does not matter what tools become available in the future, 225 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:57,560 how advanced AI gets, we will always need intellect because 226 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,680 that is what makes us human. The ability to analyze and use 227 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,960 information for our benefit. The ability and as we go later 228 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:15,760 on to manage our mind, to manage our impulses, but for that to 229 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:23,040 choose the right action. It comes down to what are the 230 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:28,040 goals that we've decided, what are the values that we would 231 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:32,960 like to imbibe as a person. So this is the first reason. 232 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:43,560 And unless the intellect is strong enough, we don't know 233 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,600 what to do with the data, We don't know how to ask the right 234 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:52,520 questions. And having too much data instead 235 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,080 of being of assistance confuses 1. 236 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,760 So how do we take the massive data? 237 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,280 And I'm saying when I say massive data, even our own 238 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:07,960 experiences, those memories, there is so much of experience, 239 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,000 so much of data there that we can draw from. 240 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:17,560 In order to know what to draw, we need clarity, we need context 241 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:22,680 that the intellect provides. So this is the first aspect, we 242 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:27,160 need the intellect for better decision making. 243 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,440 Intelligence can help up to a point, but it cannot take the 244 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:39,040 role of the intellect. The second aspect is whilst 245 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:44,920 intelligence is the data, is the storing of the data, the ability 246 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:49,640 to optimize, use the data to think originally and build on 247 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,800 the data is the job of the intellect. 248 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,400 Now when we look at schools and universities, we find that 249 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:56,720 they're providing the intelligence. 250 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:01,400 So a person goes to Med school, medical school, Medical College 251 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,520 graduates, but doesn't necessarily become brilliant 252 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,480 writing prescriptions. But another person who also goes 253 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,240 to the same Medical University, same training, becomes 254 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:20,360 outstanding. How is it same education, such 255 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:23,760 stark different results, different careers? 256 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:31,400 Because it is the handful that take the information and make 257 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,280 their own. Find out how to transplant a 258 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:42,360 heart, a kidney, the retina. Incredible discoveries, but that 259 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:47,320 ability to think independent apart beyond from the foundation 260 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,560 that they have is what makes them outstanding. 261 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,760 But if we are just too. And you could be a brilliant 262 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,880 student in school, university, but not necessarily be a success 263 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:01,560 in your career or your field. Because what makes a person 264 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:06,880 outstanding is the ability to understand the information they 265 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,360 have and go beyond it to think originally. 266 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,680 This is the limitation at the moment of these different 267 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,040 models. So at the moment, these 268 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,000 different models, and I'm referring to AI again, they 269 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:28,360 match patterns in a way that's a form of reasoning, but they have 270 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:34,280 the limitation of the developer of the program. 271 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,200 We also have that in some way, we could be limited by our mind, 272 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,880 we could be limited by our prejudices, our biases, our 273 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,440 emotions. But we also have the ability, 274 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:54,720 because of the intellect, to question, to completely flip a 275 00:21:54,720 --> 00:22:00,000 thing and analyse from a different angle, a different 276 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:07,600 perspective. There's a scene in The Counter 277 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:14,920 Monte Cristo. Have you heard of this book or 278 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:25,170 watch the movie? It's a famous French novel by 279 00:22:25,450 --> 00:22:30,090 Alexander Dumas. And in this novel, The Counter 280 00:22:30,090 --> 00:22:39,480 Monte Cristo, there's a scene where a sailor who many were 281 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:45,600 envies of is wrongly accused of treason and put in the Chateau 282 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,920 d'if. And he's there in prison, 283 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:54,240 rotting away. But he is scraping on the side 284 00:22:54,240 --> 00:23:00,320 of the wall, and somebody pushes a brick, a few more bricks. 285 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:06,960 And of course, he's startled and outcomes A haggard older man, 286 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:14,320 the Abbe Faria. And the Abbey says, oh, this is 287 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,920 not the courtyard. I thought I was escaping. 288 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,480 He realized that he had miscalculated, and instead of 289 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,120 escaping through the outer walls of the prison, he's ended up in 290 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:28,600 the next cell. But it is such a relief to 291 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,040 interact. They were in solitary 292 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,000 confinement to interact with each other. 293 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:38,880 And the Abbeys asks Dante's the name of the sailor. 294 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,480 He says, will you help me escape? 295 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,520 And Dante says, how long will it take? 296 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:49,400 Is it about 7-9 years, 79 years of digging? 297 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,000 No, He said, I'll teach you what I know. 298 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,800 And Dante says, will you teach me to read and write? 299 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,880 He says yes, and there's a conversation that goes something 300 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,080 like this, and this is from the book. 301 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:14,400 And Dante says you must teach me a small part of what you know. 302 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:20,920 And Abe says human knowledge is confined within very narrow 303 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,720 limits now. It will scarcely require two 304 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:30,880 years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I 305 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,880 possess. And Dante is us. 306 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,920 Do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so 307 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:43,000 short a time? And Abby says, not their 308 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,720 applications, certainly, but their principles. 309 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:51,120 You may. To learn is not to know. 310 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,240 There are the learners and the learned. 311 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,280 Memory makes the one, philosophy makes the other. 312 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,080 Look at the choice of words. Memory makes the one 313 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:08,840 intelligence, philosophy makes the other intellect. 314 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:15,200 And then he continues. He says Dante is asked, but 315 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,560 cannot one learn philosophy? Philosophy cannot be taught. 316 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,520 It is the application of the sciences to truth. 317 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,880 Philosophy is reducible to rules by which to know, rules by which 318 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,400 it can be learnt. It is the amalgamation of all 319 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:37,240 the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven. 320 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,240 Alexander Dumas, a masterpiece. And what he's saying here is 321 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:48,120 exactly the same thing. We can learn the principles, but 322 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:52,000 to understand it, to make it our own, and to truly benefit from 323 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:05,400 it is the role of the intellect. There is a a particular vital 324 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,880 air. It's called Udana Shakti, and a 325 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:15,960 vital air is an aspect that we need for functioning and it lies 326 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,560 between our mind and the body. So this is where other vital 327 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,640 airs such as inhalation, exhalation, the ability to 328 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,600 absorb nutrients, to excrete reproduction, all these vital 329 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:38,080 airs, these inner functions that are so useful for life lie in 330 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,560 this sheath or subtle layer of our personality. 331 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:47,160 One of the vital is is called Udana Shakti. 332 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:52,200 Udana means the ability to absorb new information, 333 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:58,360 thoughts, data. And this Udana Shakti is 334 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:03,200 strongest when we are babies constantly absorbing. 335 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,120 A baby's just a sponge and it is said that within the first two 336 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:11,880 years of life, the amount of information that a baby absorbs 337 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:19,520 is as much as we absorb in the rest of our life because we're 338 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,960 taking in colour, sound, all the different stimuli. 339 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,520 Now we are getting this information, we're acquiring 340 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,600 additional information through school, university, through our 341 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,680 life's experiences, through our travels, through our reading. 342 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:44,720 That information remains as gold on a mule's back. 343 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:53,920 It's precious, it's valuable, but we cannot use it unless we 344 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,280 process it, unless we understand it. 345 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:04,600 Alvin Toffler says the illiterate of the 21st century 346 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:10,520 will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who 347 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,240 cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. 348 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,840 So it is evolving. Reading and writing is not 349 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,360 enough. This is an education. 350 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:30,360 It makes us intelligent. But for us to be intellectual, 351 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,800 it needs to take the information, learn it, unlearn 352 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,640 it and relearn it. And then that's when we benefit 353 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,280 from it. And so the first aspect, and 354 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,280 this is the second use of the intellect is to understand the 355 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,680 information. First of all, have I processed 356 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,160 it? And unless we are putting some 357 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:55,200 reflection time into our day, we do not learn from our 358 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,920 experiences. We do not learn from the 359 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,560 information from the data, including the Sunday wisdom 360 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:05,040 session this once a week unless we keep an additional time in 361 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,520 the week to process and reflect on the knowledge. 362 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:13,080 It just evaporates. In fact, if somebody asks you 363 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:18,400 next week what was the topic in last Sunday wisdom session, we 364 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:26,120 won't remember it evaporated. But if we reflect on it, we get 365 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,360 the one idea, the 1 theme that we need to take away. 366 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:35,160 We use it. There's a saying by Pablo 367 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:46,360 Picasso, he says learn the rules like a pro so you can break them 368 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,600 as an artist, learn the rules like a pro. 369 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,720 So we need to learn. If you're a musician, you need 370 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,880 to learn the foundation of music, you need to learn the 371 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,880 notes. If you're an artist, you need to 372 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,360 learn all the structures, the forms of art, but once you know 373 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,160 that, then you can break it. Now if you haven't learnt that, 374 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,920 and this is where the value of intelligence comes in, if we 375 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,480 haven't learnt it, then how do we optimize it? 376 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:15,840 How do we take it to your next level? 377 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:22,400 So you might be an original thinker and you're thinking 378 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,320 originally you're not relying on other people, and 379 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,280 congratulations. What do you invent? 380 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,840 The table. The table has been there for a 381 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,560 long time. Then you say, OK, let me think 382 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,800 originally, come up with a new invention, the car. 383 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,320 The car has been there for a long time. 384 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,880 So to say intelligence is useless is incorrect. 385 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,400 We need intelligence. So we should not neglect it. 386 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,960 We should not deny it, but use it as a base only. 387 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:06,040 And then from there, understand the principles and play with it, 388 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:11,360 explore it. And this is what Picasso means. 389 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,520 First we've got to learn the foundations, learn the 390 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,240 structures, learn the forms, and then you can break it. 391 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,840 But if you are playing at a different pitch, if you do not 392 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,720 have discipline, you cannot just call that creativity. 393 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,640 Ah, this is me, artist. What? 394 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,680 Just doing whatever is on the top of your mind. 395 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,240 No form, no skill. Where is the creativity? 396 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,400 Creativity is doing something new. 397 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,960 Being impulsive has been there from time immemorial. 398 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,600 That is not new. But the ability to be a genius 399 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:54,240 is to take those forms and invent on them, improve them, 400 00:31:55,040 --> 00:32:01,520 relook at them. So the third aspect of having an 401 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,600 intellect is to think originally. 402 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,160 So first aspect we said we need intellect for decision making. 403 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,560 Second aspect, we need intellect to understand the information 404 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:13,920 that we've received and memorized. 405 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,920 Third part is we need intellect to think beyond the information, 406 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:24,600 to think originally. So what would you suggest 407 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,360 anybody at this stage we're halfway through, what would you 408 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:38,520 suggest to a person who wants to build the intellect, who wants 409 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,440 to be an outstanding creator, innovator? 410 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,800 Where do they go? What should they do? 411 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,120 To be open. To be open, Yes. 412 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,400 Analyse the information you have. 413 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:07,720 Analyse the information wisely. No, Analyse the information do. 414 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:17,880 The The DANTA online course. Perfect, I was hoping for that 415 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:28,120 do the e-learning course great. You know, that is very useful 416 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,200 from a life perspective, definitely. 417 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,960 And when we talk about it in in general, because it could be for 418 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,560 engineering, it could be for art, it could be for music. 419 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:47,040 Is that when we learn something, the pace of learning or the pace 420 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:52,520 of acquiring information should be at a rate that we can digest 421 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,360 it. So if we're not taking the time 422 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,800 to digest and reflect and make that information our own, that 423 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,560 information is useless. It's gold bars on a mule's back, 424 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,640 is the saying, because the mule does know how to use the gold. 425 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,639 The gold is valuable, but to who? 426 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,960 The data, the education is valuable, but in what proportion 427 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,800 to who can that individual take the time to process it? 428 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,920 Now, in some educational institutions, and I've spoken to 429 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:32,280 a lot in India, some of them have 10 to 12 hours of academic 430 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:38,840 sessions. And also on Saturday, where is 431 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,239 the time to process that amount of information? 432 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,800 So they're getting the best speakers, they are hearing case 433 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,440 studies, wonderful information, but no time for processing. 434 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:55,199 So it's a sheer bombardment of information, most of which the 435 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:59,320 personality cannot process, absorb some you remember, most 436 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:04,920 of it wasted. So the idea is here let us 437 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:11,120 filter, take in the information to the extent we can absorb and 438 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:15,360 live by it. In the Vedanta Academy, you will 439 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:21,640 find there are only two academic sessions in the day and the rest 440 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,720 of the time we have different activities. 441 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,800 But the key parts of the day are given for reflection because you 442 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:34,880 can take time to not just learn philosophy, learn about life, 443 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,840 but to actually absorb and live it. 444 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,120 That's the idea. So what we are looking at doing 445 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:49,680 is taking up information in a liberal way to become it, not to 446 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,040 make a living from it, not to make a career, not to memorize 447 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:58,400 it for the sake of repeating it to a client, a customer, a 448 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,280 patient, an exam, but to live it. 449 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:10,680 We had a gentleman, no academic qualification whatsoever, just 450 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,200 finished school. But he was not an electrical 451 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,240 engineer. But he was liberally educated in 452 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:22,440 the sense he just read for his amusement, as a hobby. 453 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,160 He read about everything electrical, but his mind was 454 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,520 like that. So he learnt the principles he 455 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:33,160 learnt. So it was without any formal 456 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:39,800 academic qualification. He's now an electrical 457 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,920 consultant for different companies. 458 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,360 But when he was in the Academy, we had an imported oven. 459 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,680 And this oven from Italy packed up. 460 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,640 And we called the consultants, we called the people from Italy, 461 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,840 They sent an engineer, they sent a local engineer. 462 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,480 Nobody could fix the oven. And Can you imagine this 463 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,320 beautiful oven that did serve us for many years was lying in the 464 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:17,320 maintenance yard. And our electrical engineer, he 465 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,680 went up, Nobody told him to do anything. 466 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,760 He had a little bit of extra time during the day and during 467 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,920 karma time where it's service time, he went and he was 468 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:32,520 fiddling around with the oven. He bought a few parts. 469 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,240 Some were saying if you replace a particular part of the oven, 470 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:38,960 you can get it working again. But that was almost the same 471 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:44,120 cost as a new oven. Within three weeks, he fixed it. 472 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:52,320 Total cost for it ₹3000 for this imported oven. 473 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,200 That oven is still working up to today. 474 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,040 Same guy. The students were travelling by 475 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:08,320 train from Pune to Delhi and are about 10:00 PM somewhere between 476 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,000 Pune and Delhi. It's quite a long travel. 477 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,200 The train stopped, so this is unusual. 478 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,480 Train is not supposed to stop here. 479 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,680 And he went to go and investigate. 480 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,200 Naturally, he gets off the train. 481 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,720 All of us are sitting there like normal passengers do. 482 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,120 Everybody is sitting. He gets off to go and see what 483 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,240 happened and he goes and he finds out what has happened is 484 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:40,000 that there was an accident and the train went over an Animal 485 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:46,200 Crossing the rails and there was a slight, the train had gone off 486 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,240 the rails slightly and this was the delay. 487 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,960 They were waiting for another carriage compartment to come, 488 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,600 etc. And this is what was going on. 489 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:02,840 And imagine he's 22 years old. He's telling the driver let's 490 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,480 try something. The driver said OK, also he said 491 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:10,440 let's go a little bit ahead. He gets one of the engineers 492 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,240 there. He says let's unlink this and 493 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:17,480 then we'll see what we can do with the part that is causing 494 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:23,120 the the train to lift a bit and then move it back and link it. 495 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,640 Can you imagine? They listened to him because it 496 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:31,360 made sense and the train got up and moving in 20 minutes. 497 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,400 Incredible. Firstly, would any of us get off 498 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,760 the train? We would just say Oh my 499 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,480 goodness, this train, I should never have gone by train, I 500 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,040 should have gone by plane. We would. 501 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,840 But look at the intellect, what is the problem? 502 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,160 Maybe I can solve it. Incredible. 503 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,320 So this is the idea of thinking originally the 4th 1 is. 504 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,360 And this is where we come down to the real crux. 505 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:04,840 Of why we use the intellect, why the intellect is essential. 506 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,640 You could be brilliant, you could have researched and have 507 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,280 the most information on the subject, but that does not mean 508 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:21,000 you have the ability to control your mind even in that subject. 509 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,920 In the book The Fall of the Human Intellect, Swamiji, the 510 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:33,240 author gives an example where he has an appointment with one of 511 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:37,320 the top three scientists in the US and his wife made the 512 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,440 appointment because she's a student and she's introducing 513 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,640 Swamiji on the scientist. So Swamiji, this is my husband. 514 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,960 He's a great scientist. And the man is nodding his head 515 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,600 and Swamiji is polite is oh, pleasure to meet you. 516 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:56,000 And all the, the formalities and the polite things have been 517 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,120 said. They sit down and the next thing 518 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:03,760 the lady says is please put some sense into my husband. 519 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,640 And somebody is shocked because this is one of the most 520 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,040 intelligent people on the planet, one of the top three 521 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,320 scientists, has contributed, has so many patents to his name. 522 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,600 And the man is nodding his head. My wife is right. 523 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:25,160 My wife is right. And the problem is, even though 524 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:31,160 he's a top scientist, he cannot control his desire for alcohol. 525 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:37,840 His liver is shot. He does not know how to react if 526 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:43,280 something negative happens. A cup and saucer might fall and 527 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,920 break. And he's thinking about it for 528 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,200 two weeks. Why did it happen? 529 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,280 Oh, it was such a jerk to my personality. 530 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:59,040 He's thinking about it, he does not how know how to control his 531 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,440 temper. So look, he has all the 532 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:07,200 intelligence, but does not have the ability to control the 533 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,560 desire for alcohol, to control temper, to control a negative 534 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,720 incident happening, does not know how to handle it. 535 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:21,440 We need an intellect to control the mind, but even in a subject, 536 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,280 if you do not reflect on it, if you do not internalize and 537 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,440 absorb it, you might have a lot of information on that subject 538 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,920 and justice. Have it lie on that superficial 539 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:39,040 understanding. We know a cardiologist, top 540 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:44,000 cardiologist, telling the patients one after the other, 541 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,520 stop your smoking, stop, cut down on the drinking, reduce the 542 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,960 stress. And this cardiologist is a chain 543 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:59,360 smoker between patients having a quick puff, opens the windows, 544 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,680 airs out the room, calls the next patient. 545 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:08,720 Now, does he know what the nicotine is doing to the heart? 546 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,640 Of course he does, he's written journals on it. 547 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,000 But he does not have the intellect strong enough to 548 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,840 control the mind. And This is why when we see 549 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,960 outstanding personalities where they're brilliant, but they make 550 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,720 decisions that derail their whole career. 551 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,320 It could be presidents, it could be scientists, it could be 552 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,320 doctors, business people. They have all the information. 553 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:38,240 And yet the one decision where the desire is too strong, mind 554 00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:44,000 takes over. How can that person do that? 555 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,800 Mind over intellect? It comes down to the model that 556 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,880 we've been studying all these weeks and years. 557 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:57,560 If the intellect is not strong enough to control the mind, we 558 00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,360 are helpless victims to our mind. 559 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,360 Notwithstanding all the information that the intellect 560 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,200 might have, all the intelligence that a person might have 561 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:15,680 rendered useless, there was a investment specialist. 562 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:21,960 And this investment specialist came up with the software to 563 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:28,120 ensure people make prudent, rational strategies, OK. 564 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:34,120 And whenever they want to make an investment that goes beyond 565 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:38,240 their portfolio to allocate too much in a particular stock or 566 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:45,560 that ruins the right allocation that they've devised, it would 567 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,840 sender prompt and stop the transaction. 568 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,800 So it was a wonderful discipline tool to ensure that you are 569 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,840 investing according to your long term goals. 570 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:58,800 Never too excessive, never too risky. 571 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,640 But the only person who could override the program was 572 00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,760 himself. When I met him a few years 573 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:13,760 later, he asked me, Siddhaka, I want to see you, can I talk to 574 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,200 you? I said yes, sure. 575 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,920 And I asked him, you know, how's the investment business going? 576 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,680 And he said terrible. I said, what happened? 577 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,000 He said no, I made a bad investment. 578 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,200 I said it's not possible. You've got the software there to 579 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,200 to make sure it's not risky, etc. 580 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:35,520 He said no, I overrode it. He said it looked too good to be 581 00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,640 true. I overrode the system. 582 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:45,440 He did it for others, but he couldn't control the temptation 583 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:51,160 of his own mind. So we need the intellect to 584 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:55,080 manage the mind. We need the intellect to keep to 585 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,160 those values. Rabindranath Tagore, he says the 586 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:04,200 world is full of sound scholars but not sound men. 587 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:13,240 When we look at education today, schools often boast what we are 588 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:15,400 sending the kids to the top universities. 589 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,920 They got placements in companies, in universities. 590 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,680 Does any school say we have created sound human beings, 591 00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,280 happy human beings, beautiful contributors to society? 592 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:35,760 There is no measure of that. The last two, we need the 593 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:43,840 intellect to handle challenges. Intelligence alone you can 594 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:49,400 analyze, but the ability to rise to your own challenge. 595 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:55,400 And we've seen this, how the greatest of thinkers, CEO's, 596 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,760 scientists, they're outstanding maybe in their particular field, 597 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,680 but as soon as something comes to the home front, a family 598 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:11,000 member is not well hospitalized, I'll passes away, overwhelmed, 599 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:20,360 completely shuts down. You have divorce lawyers, 600 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,640 marriage counselors who have all this information about life and 601 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,520 about relating and have seen what is the worst thing that can 602 00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:32,480 happen in divorce and also have all the ability about how to 603 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,960 reconcile people. And you ask the marriage 604 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:40,840 counsellor, Look, we're taking your advice, but how's, how's it 605 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,960 going with you? No, no, no. 606 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,840 I'm twice divorced. So wait, hold on. 607 00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,760 But you're trying to keep us together. 608 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,520 It's a yes. Yes, because I'm experienced. 609 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,120 No, this is not a good sign. Are you able to live by your 610 00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,320 values? Are you able to live by your 611 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,480 knowledge? Are you able to handle the 612 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:06,160 challenge when it comes to you? And for that, you need to think 613 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,480 logically. You need to be in control of 614 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,000 your emotions. You need to be structured. 615 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,920 It doesn't matter the amount of experiences you've had. 616 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,360 And that's why in William Shakespeare's play Othello, 617 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,840 Othello's a commander in the Army, and he picks as his 618 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,880 deputy, not his experienced Lieutenant, Diego. 619 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:32,440 He picks Casio, A mathematician. Why did he pick a mathematician 620 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,760 over somebody who's an experienced general? 621 00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:39,840 For his thinking, for his ability to be objective, to 622 00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:43,040 handle the crisis, to think structured. 623 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:52,960 And the last aspect that a human being needs an intellect for, we 624 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:58,920 need an intellect to delve into our personality and take us to 625 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:05,320 the extreme, most terrestrial point and then leave it there. 626 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:12,400 Crossover to self realization. Again, there is so much of 627 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,320 information. There is so much of knowledge. 628 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,960 There's so much intelligence on the spiritual field. 629 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:24,240 You have incredible learned people, but are they professors 630 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,600 or are they philosophers? Do they live the knowledge or do 631 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,760 they merely lecture on the subject? 632 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:37,640 In order to be self realized, to be enlightened, is to take that 633 00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:41,960 information or whatever life throws at us, to analyze it and 634 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,040 make it our own. Then we see, then we get the 635 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,200 insight. But all the sight, all the 636 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:52,000 tuition, all the Vedas, scriptures and all these 637 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,320 beautiful texts that are out there from all the great 638 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:58,560 traditions are of no avail unless we are able to lecture to 639 00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,280 ourselves, unless we are able to take those thoughts and make our 640 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,160 own. You've got incredible Saints and 641 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:10,520 sages who did not know how to read and write, who never went 642 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:16,520 through any formal education. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, one of 643 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,520 the great Saints in his institution, is known around the 644 00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,880 world. He was not a man of letters. 645 00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:28,520 And yet when you hear him speak, such wisdom speaks to your soul. 646 00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:35,480 It's his words penetrate. Ramana Maharishi never finished 647 00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:40,360 his education, yet he would contend and answer the questions 648 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:45,760 of the greatest theologists again. 649 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:50,480 Intelligence may be useful. It can help others, it can be 650 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,280 presented in a particular way. So if a person takes 651 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,680 intelligence and uses it for self realization, for 652 00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:01,040 enlightenment, what an aid. So we see people like Adi 653 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:05,320 Shankaracharya, the author of this book, Swami Parthasarathy, 654 00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,520 with such a high level of academic intelligence of 655 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,480 studying Western and Eastern philosophy and then being able 656 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,360 to present it, you can use it for your own growth, for your 657 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:22,440 own enlightenment. Lord Buddha, he had been well 658 00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,600 versed in all the traditions, all the scriptures of the time, 659 00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,560 but he didn't allow it to be theoretical. 660 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:37,520 He used it for his own journey within, questioning that 661 00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,520 fundamental question of who am I? 662 00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,800 What is the real part of my personality? 663 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:49,520 And he found it. Therefore, thinking is an art, a 664 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,160 skill, a technique. It needs to be learnt and 665 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:57,000 practiced, just as we would to play a musical instrument or fly 666 00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,200 an aircraft. We've got to invest time in 667 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,480 building this intellect, not just on equipping ourselves with 668 00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:10,040 information. We gave a lecture 2 days ago at 669 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,200 a leadership school in Bratislava, Slovakia. 670 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,320 And the students afterwards, they came up and they said we've 671 00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:23,120 never heard anything like this. And how is it not taught? 672 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:24,800 We don't even know how to manage our minds. 673 00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,480 We don't even know the nature of our minds to manage it. 674 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,520 This is it. We've taken thinking for 675 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:37,320 granted. So here is a summary of today's 676 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,880 points. Intelligence is not intellect. 677 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,160 So I could have saved you the one hour and Justice told you 678 00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:50,440 that one line which is the title intelligence is not intellect. 679 00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,040 Why? Because you need intellect for 680 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,280 the quality of your decision making, number one. 681 00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:03,400 Number two, we need the intellect to understand the 682 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:09,120 information to make it our own 3 to think originally. 683 00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:11,960 So one is we receive the information we think 684 00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:17,000 out-of-the-box to think original and be outstanding in a 685 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:23,960 particular field, The 4th to manage the mind's desires, 5th 686 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,760 to handle the challenges that come forward in life and 687 00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:34,400 overcome them, and the last one to reach self realization. 688 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,720 Intelligence can be helpful in life, but there is no cause and 689 00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:42,720 effect. Relationship intelligence does 690 00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:49,080 not develop the intellect. It is your own application to 691 00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:53,640 some intelligence, yes, but even just thinking within yourself 692 00:53:54,880 --> 00:54:00,920 that will develop the intellect. And now we're open to questions. 693 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:07,080 Question one can the intellect also be a function of our 694 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:11,120 Vaselines? Are some people born with a 695 00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,200 stronger intellect than most others? 696 00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:19,400 Yes, intellect is a function of our varsanas. 697 00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,480 So depending on the quality of your varsanas, the quality of 698 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,360 your intellect and it is something that is carried 699 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,040 forward. So whatever your varsanas are, 700 00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:33,120 that is the kind of intellect that's going to express when the 701 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:36,040 intellect expresses at the age of 810 years old. 702 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,880 And that is why some have more developed intellects than 703 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,160 others. Now, what we do with the 704 00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:46,760 intellect that we have in this lifetime is really up to our 705 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:52,720 individual efforts, but it has been built from our past. 706 00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:58,800 Question two. What does intelligence quotient 707 00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:03,680 IQ stand for as IQ testing instruments stand today? 708 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:07,640 Are they measuring intelligence or intellect as defined in 709 00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:11,560 Vedanta? Is there any overlap of IQ and 710 00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:17,000 intellect? I think there is an overlap. 711 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:24,120 Predominantly IQ tests check your ability to match patterns, 712 00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:29,000 so that's the intelligence part. But there is also an aspect to 713 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:33,200 problem solve and that requires processing of information that 714 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:37,960 you've received and maybe not learnt but you've gone past it. 715 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,680 So that is the part that would test your intellect, your 716 00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:47,040 ability to think independent of what you know and come to 717 00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:51,560 conclusions. So I think IQ testing, and I 718 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:56,240 haven't done one in a while, does have some aspect of 719 00:55:56,240 --> 00:55:58,480 intellect, but it's predominantly testing 720 00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:09,080 intelligence. The next question Is there a 721 00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,960 semantic problem? Intelligence in the military 722 00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:18,120 sense is knowledge, IE data. But in the academic sense, 723 00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:21,480 intelligence is the processing power of the student. 724 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:27,000 Is intellect therefore a synonym for academic intelligence? 725 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:33,240 Define the difference if not. It is semantics. 726 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,920 So it depends how we are using these words. 727 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,480 And in different contexts, in different cultures we use these 728 00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,720 words differently. So in some contexts they use 729 00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:48,960 mind to mean the intellect. So all we need to do is not get 730 00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:53,920 too focused on the words. There is an aspect when we 731 00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,440 talking about knowledge and data, we're just calling that 732 00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:01,240 intelligence. So external information is 733 00:57:01,240 --> 00:57:09,440 intelligence. So don't get too hooked on the 734 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:15,400 definition as per your particular language here we're 735 00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,000 using it in a particular context. 736 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,440 So external information is intelligence. 737 00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:26,600 That inherent ability to process and analyze the information is 738 00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,720 intellect. Also the second part, the 739 00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:33,960 ability to control emotions, impulses, desires and 740 00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:37,880 attachments, that capacity, capability is the intellect. 741 00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:40,720 So you could give it different words. 742 00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:44,440 You can call it. This is A and this ability is B. 743 00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:51,480 For common understanding purposes, we're using today 744 00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,960 intelligence to mean external information, intellect to mean 745 00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:58,640 the ability to think originally, the ability to process, 746 00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,120 understand, the ability to manage the mind. 747 00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:07,400 The next question How do we train for emotional 748 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:15,680 intelligence? Excellent emotional intelligence 749 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,760 is using the information of emotions. 750 00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:26,120 So often when we become or start moving towards being 751 00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,280 intelligent, we don't see emotions as information. 752 00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:38,000 But emotions has powerful data and if we are able to use and 753 00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:43,840 take in that data for context, for understanding, for human 754 00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:48,920 interaction, empathy, situational reading, that can be 755 00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:54,960 valuable information for the intellect to process and then 756 00:58:54,960 --> 00:59:00,200 make a decision. So an intellect that takes in 757 00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:08,880 all factors and does not or ignores the emotional aspect is 758 00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,480 missing some of the picture, a crucial part of the picture, and 759 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:13,920 will not come to the right decision. 760 00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:18,760 Because the mind has useful information, it has emotion and 761 00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:24,120 feeling, which is powerful data. Why do you feel negative about 762 00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,120 the situation? That is worth putting into your 763 00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:33,040 criteria for thinking. So emotional intelligence would 764 00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:39,320 be somebody who reads emotion, takes an emotion into account, 765 00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:45,080 and then responds. So we could call in this 766 00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:48,360 context, emotional intelligence, the data of emotions. 767 00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:54,600 An emotional intellect is a true intellect that analyzes that 768 00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,840 data, those emotions, and responds accordingly. 769 01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:06,160 We'll take up the last question. The intellect seems to have two 770 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,960 roles. One is being able to discern and 771 01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:14,360 discriminate. The other is to control the mind 772 01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,760 and ensure we act according to obligation. 773 01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:22,680 It seems reflection can help with the first, but how do we 774 01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:31,760 work on the 2nd? So intellect can control the 775 01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:38,720 mind when we reflect because in a particular situation where our 776 01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:43,600 mind has overwhelmed us, we don't know how to react. 777 01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:47,640 In that situation, a person caught us off guard and we were 778 01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,720 not ready for that situation, so we reacted. 779 01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:53,280 We lost our temper and depending on the quality of your 780 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,160 intellect, you might think nothing was wrong. 781 01:00:56,280 --> 01:01:00,920 I reacted, I just reacted. But later on, when the Internet 782 01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:04,360 becomes available, you think, my goodness, I was so harsh, I was 783 01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,480 unduly harsh. And why did I get upset? 784 01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:08,160 It's not good to get upset like that. 785 01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:09,720 What kind of example am I setting? 786 01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:11,600 What's the kind of person I want to be? 787 01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:15,360 And also that person could have retaliated. 788 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:21,840 This is not a good idea. So reflection is how can I do it 789 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:25,160 differently? Why did I get angry? 790 01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:29,320 Are there methods not to get angry in those situations? 791 01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:35,560 What is my desire that got obstructed in the 1st place for 792 01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:38,080 me to express like that? This is all reflection. 793 01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:45,760 So reflection is as vital in understanding as it is in 794 01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:49,720 understanding our mind, in having the conversation of the 795 01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:52,240 mind and figuring out how to relate to the mind. 796 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:56,000 And that's what I mean by reflecting on our past 797 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,360 experiences, our past interactions with the mind, and 798 01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:02,920 figuring out the mind as a personality that we assess and 799 01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:06,320 figure out what is the right way to contact the mind to get the 800 01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:12,560 best cooperation. It's crucial, the way to develop 801 01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:15,640 the intellect. And we've spoken about it. 802 01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:20,440 One question everything. As soon as you start 803 01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:24,080 questioning, you've activated conscious thought. 804 01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:27,000 Second, don't take anything for granted. 805 01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,080 Try and understand the base principles of it. 806 01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:33,040 Why do I do that? Why don't I do that? 807 01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:34,840 Why does most of the world do that? 808 01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,120 What is this principle based on? Find the base principles, 809 01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:44,240 underline it. And the third is we don't have 810 01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:48,720 to go and ignore all the intelligence that there is about 811 01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:52,160 lifeout there. There is a structured 812 01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:57,520 philosophy, a wisdom of life called Vedanta, presented by a 813 01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:01,600 person who spends 65 years in the field, Swami Patasarathy. 814 01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:05,080 We've got the course of learning with the books, with the 815 01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:09,040 e-learning, and with our Sunday wisdom sessions as well, where 816 01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:13,160 we can go deeper and deeper with the subject. 817 01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:18,800 All we need to do is take in some information and ensure we 818 01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:21,560 make the time to reflect on it and keep moving. 819 01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:30,640 Intellect is crucial. Perhaps educational institutions 820 01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,640 need to figure out the balance now. 821 01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,080 It is so much intelligence. No intellect. 822 01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,760 Let's not remove the intelligence, but side by side 823 01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:47,600 build the intellect. So next week there is no live 824 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,160 session. We will screen a recording. 825 01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:54,000 We have the Prague retreat next Sunday, but the following Sunday 826 01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:59,560 we will speak about refining the educational system. 827 01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:04,360 So that might be of interest to many of you. 828 01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:10,480 I know some of you are in the educational field, so that 829 01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:13,800 should be interesting. Thank you everybody.