First, we shall take some questions from the internet audience and then I will ask you to come up and

there's a microphone here. You will come and ask your question. Tell us your name and ask your question.

Yes. Questions from the internet audience.

Yes, siramish. The first question is from Paul and Kavita in California.

What is the distinction between the mind and the intellect? Could you help us understand it with an example or analogy?

When I experience an internal tug of war in my mind, for instance, between wanting to

concentrate on the mantra in meditation and another part of me pulling away at wandering

thoughts, I am aware of this internal struggle.

Who is this I that is watching this mental tug of war?

Secondly, if this whole world was created as God's lila and each soul is a character with a definite

role to play, then is our spiritual progress and eventual realization of Brahman predetermined by the great play

director God? Do I have any say in changing my character's role or is it preordained?

All right. Two different questions. Well the first one is fairly simple. What is the

difference between mind and intellect?

You would say that it's not simple, but actually,

these things are very well defined in Vedant,

very well defined, thousands of years ago.

So how do you define the mind and how do you distinguish it

from the intellect?

The mind is, in Vedantata, the basic definition is,

Sankalpa-vikalpa-Atmika, manah.

That mind is, which oscillates between different possibilities,

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