Intelligence means to know that the parasites inside us needs to be eliminated, not facilitated. If we are taking care of a garden and we know that there might be some parasitic elements which will destroy the garden, then we ensure that they are driven away. We need to be similarly vigilant in our inner garden. There can be parasitic elements such as jealousy or greed or pessimism which can ruin the garden of our heart. And as soon as we identify such elements within us, rather than justifying their presence, we need to immediately be working to drive them out and thereby ensure that our inner garden flourishes.

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13.35 Those who see with eyes of knowledge the difference between the body and the knower of the body, and can also understand the process of liberation from bondage in material nature, attain to the supreme goal.