27. THE POWER OF DISCRIMINATION
Every human being is given an invaluable gift, the gift of the intellect. It is a tool that makes us discriminate black from white, wrong from right. But this tool remains within us, like a brandishing sword remains in its scabbard. The sharp edge of the intellect that can cut through the myth of our life gets covered by the illusions projected by the mind. Consciousness takes out the sword of the intellect and cuts through the illusion. Consciousness empowers Discrimination for us, so that we can choose what is right, and we can discern the Truth.
Why is it that human beings don't live with discrimination, although we have the gift of the intellect? It is because we are not conscious – both of the intellect and the Truth. We know the Truth but are not conscious of it. We have an intellect that remains dormant in us.
Consciousness exposes both, the Truth, and the intellect. It is the tool that can wipe out the myth that covers the Truth from a distance. As we live with the power of discrimination, the Truth becomes real in our life. The intellect guards the Truth in the presence of Consciousness. The knowledge of the Truth is realized, just as the myth and the illusion disappear in our life. Without Consciousness, we are unable to live with discrimination and remain prisoners behind the bars of the myth we grow up with. Consciousness awakens our power of discrimination.