"What IS?" and "Why?"

Intellect & Intelligence.

The brain functions in two ways:

Feelings and Emotions. 

Feelings are what comes from without. 

Emotions are what comes from within. 

Basically the two are neural perception and response only.

So the activity of brain could be said :

Neural Fireworks or Neural Pyrotechnics.

All Thought is thus reduced to the kind of verbal activity that takes place in the brain, while the feelings and responses are psychosomatic experiences of the kind. 

The attempts at understanding the 

"Reality"

Begins with the enquiry into :

What IS? 

and Why? 

The first takes the way to (Self)-Realization,

The another to Science.

As soon as the question :

"What IS?" arises in consciousness (Which is neither the mind nor the brain, and of course not limited to body as well),

A Questioner appears to exist.

This Questioner has an assumed time-bound  identity of its own, which at once is ignored and as a consequence, the consciousness splits into two, namely 'me' / 'I' and the world around this 'me'.

There is no individual "SELF",

Nor any,  the collective "SELF".

Of course, there is the consciousness that is "Totality" / "Whole", but as it is unique in the sense that it is rather "INDIVISIBLE" and not "INDIVIDUAL", the word "SELF" doesn't apply to it.

So,  the Realization consists in understanding this Reality. 

The Science on the other hand assumes the existence of "Causes" and thus, in this very moment, projects what I'd names "TIME".

"Looking for the causes" is not the same as :

"the Reasoning".

"Reasoning" comes from the Sanskrit word-root 

'ऋष्', - ऋष्यते, ऋषि, 

Which has given us rise, raise, and "reisen" in Deutsche. 

The words rich in English, 'रईस' in Urdu stands for the same.

Intellect deals into the Question of "Why?".

Intelligence seeks "What IS?".

The search / exploration into "Reality" in terms of "What is?" takes the attention towards the "consciousness" which is the only unique primordial fact. 

The search / exploration into "Reality" in terms of "Why?" scatters the attention onto and into the myriad paths of science without an end. 

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