If one disregards intellect, the mind can lose sanity and become destructive in ways such as being restless, turbulent, strong, and obstinate. This can lead to wrong choices driven by herd instinct, attachment to desires, and ego complexes. Disregarding intellect affects success, peace, and has negative effects on religion and society. Intellect helps one discriminate clearly between important contrasts like freedom and bondage, richness and poverty, health and ill-health, love versus attachment, knowledge versus wisdom, and abstinence versus enjoyment of worldly versus spiritual matters.