Intelligence 

Is it responsible for growth or downfall?

It is both.    Some intelligence with quest for betterment and growth is  good 

The  problem lies where  most  of the  people believe their intelligence is  complete, all  knowing and their solution to a situation is  perfect and  all  others  are  wrong!

This  absurd obstinate stupidity, the  illusion of  knowledge causes  downfall.   Even now we such  forms of  stupid argument  – Oh  the prime minister made the  right  decision or  wrong decision, this  candidate is better for  presidency, global warming is  a myth or  real, should  I marry this  person or  not, etc.   

This  is  the  world  of  debate, duality.  How  can  you  find  an answer when  you  use  logic with  very  incomplete data?

How  does  a yogi  solve these dilemmas?   

Very  easily !   Such  questions do  not  torment him.   He sits  in  meditation.  Silences his  emotions.  This  is  the  trick. Silencing his  emotions. Then  Silencing his  logic.  What remains is  divine help !  Follow  it! 

All  problems in  the  world can  slowly  dissolve if everyone followed it !

A president would  do  well if  he  had  a yogi  guiding him.  

Enough  said !   Learn  to  deal  with  problems this way