# Intelligence vs Intellect: Understanding Through Meditation

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117244822608371757
- Source account: [@binarybodhi](https://x.com/binarybodhi)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:12
- Published: 2026-11-03
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation) To be intelligent is a totally different phenomenon than being intellectual.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=6) Intellect is of the mind. Intelligence comes only through meditation.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=12) There is no other way. Intellect collects information.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=19) It is a memory system. Intelligence needs no information.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=30) It goes through a transformation. Intellect functions through ready-made answers, answers which are provided by others: parents, teachers, schools, colleges, universities, priests, leaders.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=53) Ready-made answers are collected by the intellectual people.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=59) Intellectuals are parrots. They are mechanical.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=66) They are His Master's Voice, HMV records, gramophone records.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=78) They don't have their own understanding.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=83) The intelligent person lives moment to moment, not through borrowed answers.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=93) He has no ready-made answer.

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=101) He sees the challenge of the situation and responds accordingly. He is not a photograph.

[1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=108) He is a mirror. The intellectual is a photograph.

[1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=114) He has already an imprint on it. The intelligent person is just a mirror.

[2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/26QRBsDn8gHK/en/intelligence-vs-intellect-understanding-through-meditation?t=122) He reflects reality as it is. He simply reflects it and responds to it