Types of Intellect : Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Wisdom by Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"It is the intellect which harbors inhibitions, likes and dislikes, approvals and disapprovals and it is again the intellect which harbors wisdom, which brings forth the intuition." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar explains:

This whole creation is made up of one energy. Everything is made up of just one thing.
Whenever anything bothers you, if you come back to this one principle - thereis only one energy which everything is made up of, so there are a lot of possibilities; that brings great relief. Are you getting what I’m saying?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar points out that there are three types of intellect:

One is an intellect which is dormant or doesn’t function at all; sleepy, in slumber and only into negativity. This is Tamasic Intellect.

Then there is Rajasic Intellect. Most people have a rajasic intellect. Rajasic intellect means seeing everything as different – This person is different, that person is different, this person behaves that way, that lady behaves this way; dwelling on these differences.

Thinking there are so many people, so many personalities, and seeing that as reality. Doing this sometimes you go very high and sometimes you go down. This is rajasic intellect.

Then there is Sattvic Intellect, which is the goal of evolution.
Sattvic intellect sees there is only one thing that is underlying all other differences. That is the reality.