Comment: Desire develops the mind. You say that it is not the intelligent one who learns, but still a person becomes smarter.

My Response: But this reason appears as a result of new feelings, sensations, and changes in one’s desires.
Comment: So a stronger desire emerges, and because of that the mind increases as a side effect.

My Response: No, it is not a side effect. It truly is auxiliary. It serves the increased, transformed desires.

But we always thought that desires were just some kind of passions, something else, and that the mind is something we can rely on. In reality, that is not how it is. You begin to see that everything is completely different, the world is arranged the opposite way, precisely because desire is the basis of matter.

That is, if you act only within our world, then knowledge is above desires. But if you desire to enter the upper world, you begin to understand that all your advancement depends on the change and correction of your desires. Therefore, they become the main thing for you to address. And knowledge and reason are adjacent, as something auxiliary.

Comment: I wouldn’t say that. After all, all your previous knowledge allowed you to express certain things.

My Response: But nothing more. Only in my profession as a teacher, but personally, I don’t need it.
Inner intelligence, that is, internal development does help, of course, but it depends on the type of soul.

I’m serious. I want people to understand that the level of earthly knowledge, whatever it may be— psychological or scientific—gives a person absolutely nothing for spiritual advancement. For explanations, for work, for something external perhaps it does. But not for the person himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

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