In all the dealings of life, our senses understand according to their experiences. Sometimes our intellect can understand by extracting the essence of the experience, observe it and then go ahead. Even here Intellect needs the support of experience. Just as, our feet need the support of solid ground if we want to jump forward, our intellect inspires us to move forward on the solid footing of the experience if we continue to do introspection in the subject at the time. There are many kind of understandings. Understanding that propels us towards higher understanding is not present just in intellect. Intellect can think of higher stages but it cannot stabilize in higher stages by itself. This is just for the show. Intellect helps but it is based on the strength of experience. It cannot become subtle and sharp without experience. In spiritual field there is no Guru like experience. For this reason, understand experience as the guru.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Yog, Edition 1,
Part 1, Page 358.
