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In our daily life, whether in domestic or social or spiritual, to be successful, one needs the power of discrimination. When facing any situation or dealing or interacting with people, one has to have the power of discrimination over the kinds of thoughts that may arise. Thoughts are based on past experiences, habits, beliefs, images, ego etc.

How can one develop the power of discrimination? Those whose intellect is engaged in the remembrance of the One Father, the Supreme Soul, and are in constant stage will be able to quickly discriminate. Those whose intellect creates a lot of thoughts will have mixture of their own waste thoughts in recognising others. Waste and sinful thoughts become an obstacle in creating the power to discriminate. And those who have cleanliness of the intellect will be able to do any task successfully using the power of discrimination.

Letting the intellect to wander in many directions and getting it too involved in many tasks also will make the intellect feel weak and tired, and it cannot allow one to take any accurate decision. Weak thoughts and sinful thoughts make the intellect tired. By having a variety, the intellect and the stage constantly fluctuate, and because of this, the power to discern is reduced.

When impure thoughts are generated and go in for expansion which is like manure for the plant that stimulate growth, increase the waste/impure thoughts that could the vision and prevent one from seeing between right and wrong.

When someone is so used to a particular habit and inwardly, it gives him great pleasure to "belong" and when we belong, then it is not possible to see. When we belong, we become irrational as we always condition our mind. One can see things in the right perspective, only when we have no stand to look.

As a detached observer, one could experience the feeling of a particular thought without saying right or wrong, and looking at it without an image, then we can discern, from right to wrong. This is the very reason, people often make blunders knowing it what they are doing is wrong. Intellect is gifted with a filter namely 'will power and wisdom'.

To make an accurate decision one needs to have a good filter, but however obstacles are caused to the will power due to our mental positioning, mental limits, assumptions and associated memories. To overcome these old limitations one has to be alert, and unbiased.

Apart from this the spiritual wisdom also makes us understand, how we have moved away from our innate values towards the acquired values. We need to activate our will power to rule out our acquired qualities namely beliefs, habits, memories, influences and ego to awaken.

Innate qualities are peace, love, truth and happiness. In order to activate our will power, we need the positive energy which has the greatest inner resources. To have this energy, we have to go into silence and feel the energy of the positive qualities through our own thoughts. This is called mediation. This process of self empowerment will give us the power to control ourselves at the right time throughout right process in the right manner.

One has to be a good listener, so that he is not preoccupied, or has preconceived notion of the subject so as to arrive at the right decision. Listening with empathy is very essential. Putting oneself in the shoes of another and feel the experience of the response is important to have empathy.

When discriminating right from wrong, truth from falsehood, benefit from loss, one has to have a broad and unlimited intellect. Broad in the sense having farsighted vision knowing the consequences of one's actions, where the unlimited consciousness will be devoid of self centred motives together with non-egoistic approach of the situation. To do away with limited consciousness, have equal vision, which is love, which is charity, which is the truth.

A disturbed or peaceless mind cannot discriminate between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, as this negative thought, drains down the energy to discriminate the situation accurately. In such a situation it is desirable to postpone any decision-making until the mind is harmonised.

There should be control over the intellect. There should be the power to discriminate, according to the situation at any given time. It should not be that you discriminate after the situation or after the time has lapsed, saying this should not have happened, that should not have happened. If I had taken this decision it would have been much better.

Time passed wastefully or there are waste thoughts only when there is not the recognition of whether something is wasteful or powerful, whether it is right or wrong. Sometimes due to our ego even though it is a waste, we think we are thinking powerfully, I am thinking correctly, whatever I have said is right in this situation, because there is not the power to discriminate, the power of the mind is dissipated and so is the power of time. Firstly, one has to become knowledgeful and clearly understand what is wasteful and ordinary. Having understood, it would automatically be emerged in action.

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