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him from sins, unrighteousness and moral
degradation. The intellect helps the mind to
switch from diffusion over to concentration of
its powers and inspires it towards the goal of
self-reflection and spiritual knowledge. The
intellect combines the worldly matters with
worship of God. The virtuous intellect helps
the mind to get away from worldliness and
arouses in it the feelings of calmness, self-
realization, happiness, and contentment. Gita's
discourse on steady intellect, which is well-
composed and free from passion, is quite
clear. A man endowed with such an intellect
is called sthitaprajna He is one who
is not sad in adversity, is not arrogant in
affluence, is not worried of misfortune, does
not deviate from the path of nobility. When
faced with adversity, remains committed to
observance of his duties and is always
content, happy, calm and thankful to the
Almighty.