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The ability not only to read many books on different subject matters but to understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence

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"understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 7 - 12

The ability not only to read many books on different subject matters but to understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence (medhā), another opulence.
BG 10.34, Purport: The seven opulences listed—fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience—are considered feminine. If a person possesses all of them or some of them he becomes glorious. If a man is famous as a righteous man, that makes him glorious. Sanskrit is a perfect language and is therefore very glorious. If after studying one can remember a subject matter, he is gifted with a good memory, or smṛti. And the ability not only to read many books on different subject matters but to understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence (medhā), another opulence. The ability to overcome unsteadiness is called firmness or steadfastness (dhṛti). And when one is fully qualified yet is humble and gentle, and when one is able to keep his balance both in sorrow and in the ecstasy of joy, he has the opulence called patience (kṣamā).
Page Title:The ability not only to read many books on different subject matters but to understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence
Compiler:Madhavananda
Created:03 of Dec, 2008
Totals by Section:BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1