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.
Thinking it over memories were there and all related to selfishness and that was not so great. Swami is using those words what is giving us a feeling for it and there is that picture, if we compare it to the brain of a crow we know what to expect from that intelligence and if it is only selfish, we get to the conclusion that it is rather stupid, but it seems it is very common and we will for sure somehow get in touch with that selfish category of intelligence. It cannot be that bright if it is compared to the brain of a crow.
The second category will think of one's own good along with the good of others. This appears as the ordinary way of life.
And that is what we usually think and what we see as normal and what everybody thinks in our social consciousness, that is what others expect and what we agree upon without that we have to talk about it. Everybody thinks is normal to feel and think like that and we just do our best in our life or that's life we agree upon, it is a common understanding on the mind level that it is okay to be like that. It is the way people think usually as we should be and what is good and what is not so good.
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.
In listening to the third we get easily to the conclusion that all is done and understood and that is what we find if people see themselves in a Sai family, we want the good and happiness for all what more can we do?
It is what is seen as ideal and great and good and also a way of common understanding and we feel we can understand it if we all are part of the same family, but that is not what Swami is teaching, he tells us that those devotees who tell us that we are just a Sai family are part time devotees and when we look at the fourth category of intelligence it will tells us why.
It is only on the fourth category we have the Atmic principle and therefore - the Atma Buddhi.
Only on that level it does make sense to ask the question, 'who am I?'
On that highest level of intelligence we have to realize that we are three persons, the one I think I am that is the body and what others think I am that is the mind and who I really am and that is Atma. (Swami)
It is the level of truth and truth is one and unchanging, but always on those three levels, we cannot get out of that, it is gross, subtle and transcendental. And he is telling us that we should always be aware of the relationship that is probably also the reason why we get so often to the wrong conclusion about Sai family as the highest as it looks like a relationship, but that is not meant by it.
The Atmic principle is the divine in the heart and there is one only and without a second and we are all the same higher self. There is only one. There is oneness and no duality.
If the mind is there, we have duality.
We have to be aware of the relationship, because we are all the same and that is about oneness and merging in that oneness, there is only one, by being aware of he relationship we merge with the divine and there is pure love or divine love, there is no second, the forth category knows only one.
It is great to listen to his words and to realize that he said it in so many ways and again and again and by thinking it over we begin to feel the difference.
And we don't know, but on the third level we think we know, but it is only the third category of intelligence and we think we know it all and it is all done, but that is a not right conclusion.
We don't know and as we think we know it means we don't know that we don't know. That is the difference between the third and the forth category.
But we find that divinity we experienced with him only in the forth category of intelligence, we need to listen and think it over again and again and he is giving us the answer by listening to his words. It is beyond mind interpretation and reasoning in the mind. We find here the one we love, we find what we adore and nothing else but 'that' it is the Atmic principle, it is the fourth category of intelligence and there is nothing higher and nothing beyond that.
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.
There is no difference on that level.
Here everything is divine and omnipresent and it is very simple if we have the experience of the 'I am that', the Atmic principle, the divinity in the heart, there is nothing but 'that'. To make the experience we have to listen.
Our decisions are influenced by our level of consciousness or by our intelligence and it is quite stupid to go to a master who is teaching the highest, but to go for the lowest and to develop only selfishness, incredible actually that something like that is possible really.
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