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Tattva 14 — Intellect (Buddhi)
The intellect: the deciding, discerning faculty — the first and subtlest evolute of nature.
Buddhi is the intellect — the faculty that decides, judges, and discerns, giving experience its definite shape ('this is that'). As the first thing to evolve out of primal nature, it is the subtlest and highest part of the mental apparatus, the clear mirror in which the world is determined and known. It is one of the three components of the 'inner instrument' of the mind.
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- UpadeśasāhasrīKālaḍi (Kaladi) · 710explains
- TantrasāraŚrīnagara (Srinagar), Kashmir · 1000explains
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)
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