There are four categories of intelligence — selfish, the selfish-selfless, the purely
selfless and Soul (Atma) based. The first category is always thinking of what is good for one's own self and makes decisions. It is like the intelligence of a crow. This is very common today in the world. The second category will think of one's own good along with the good of others. This appears as the ordinary way of life. The third, always thinks that others must get the same kind of happiness one wishes for oneself. In that context, realising that the human body is given for the sake of causing benefit to others; this third category of persons will always try to do good to others. The fourth category — the Atma Buddhi is always concerned with the aspect of dharma and the necessity for safeguarding it. They consider themselves as messengers of God; and forgetting their own selfish interests, always think of sacrifice and do good to the rest of the world.
In thinking about the categories of intelligence it made me first just remember experiences, but they had mostly to do with selfishness and it made all that come up because it looked that ridiculous in that light of intelligence and after a while it didn't feel anymore like intelligence, but the opposite, the absence of intelligence or what we also call 'stupidity'.
As the man who is coming in our dreams to awake us was present in the daughter's dream and told her that her father is 'stupid' and that he doesn't know what he is doing it was just about that. It is called selfishness.
We also kind of enjoy repeating it as it was the man coming in our dreams to awake us who said it, it feels stronger when we repeat it and make him not forget what the man coming in our dreams to awake us said.
It was the only thing that got to him and after all seemed to somehow work, even if it was still not easy going but incredible complicated. It felt like impossible to tell, impossible to share, no reaction no matter what was said really.
Of all the possible words we could use to tell that one word it is totally stupid we found no words for it and it didn't work out, only when we said if he would not be that stupid, he would keep the promise as Swami always tells us to keep promises and that is the only way he could get aware of it.
It was a rather long and unpleasant story made short, it was the word stupid that did it and finally I got the copy of what I needed to get, instead of just sending it and getting over with, it was a long, long, very, very long story to finally get it and it all has to do with nothing else but stupidity that is how we get it to the point.
Everybody else we think would just have sent it and got over with the problem, but he created only more and more problems instead of doing it and not even when it was promised he did it.
If he would have kept the promise it would have relaxed the matter, but as he is stupid he also didn't know that we always should keep promises and he didn't do it. So we had to remind him again and again until we didn't know how to tell it anymore as no words seemed to do it, but stupidity that did it after all. It was the first part of it. Swami tells us always to keep promises, if we don't do it we have a reason for it and if it is selfishness it will not end well.
But the word 'stupid' did the job after all and we got it, we can still not believe it after all the time that has passed since the beginning of it and it is not pleasant and not nice and rather upsetting, it is always the hard way and not at all what Swami is teaching actually and we think we are in the wrong movie really, but it nevertheless happened and if we would like it to be different, it is not and we just can learn from it, but it is the example of the first category of intelligence what is called selfish only.
Some things are just not that easy if it seems we talk a totally different spiritual language.
If we listen to Swami and think it over we find the one facet that is from all side seen the same and that is what we have to find in his words and what we share in the study circle.
There are four categories of intelligence — selfish, the selfish-selfless, the purely selfless and Soul (Atma) based. The first category is always thinking of what is good for one's own self and makes decisions. It is like the intelligence of a crow. This is very common today in the world.
