You are not born with it
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One of the biggest problems you face is - "I understand what is right and what is wrong, but I forget and do my own thing! "This is the one statement I hear from everybody every day! "I understand what is right and wrong, but when it comes to actions, I act as per the old patterns." You need to understand - you are not born with the patterns with which you are working now. When you are not born with certain pattern, it means it is created in you. Anything created can be changed. Now you can destroy the old one and create the new pattern. But constantly, for years and years and years, you go on cribbing - "No, I know what is right, what is wrong. But I cannot do, I cannot look, I cannot understand, I cannot change..!"
Buddhi - intelligence - means, knowing clearly - "Anything I created, I can destroy and create a new one." Every time you think - I cannot, I cannot, I cannot - you are giving strength to your ignorance. When you say - I can, I can, I can - you are giving strength to your buddhi. Every time you think - it is okay, what is the need for transformation with so much of struggle? - you give strength to your tamas. Establishing yourself in intelligence means, trying at every step to change yourself one inch, trying to transform you just one inch extra - inch by inch, trying to transform you.
