Buddhi
बुद्धि buddhiThe discerning intellect, the faculty of judgment and decision. In the Katha Upanishad's chariot image, buddhi is the charioteer who must govern the mind and the senses to reach the goal.
Where this term appears
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
"Know the Self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect (buddhi) the charioteer, and the mind the reins.
- The Antahkarana: The Fourfold Inner Instrument Essentials
Above it is buddhi , the intellect, and its work is the opposite of wavering: it is nishchaya , determination.
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
All the (sixteen) shining vowels on its (sixteen) petals, of a crimson hue, are distinctly visible to him whose mind (Buddhi) is illumined." Note what is there and what is not.
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
buddhihina tanu janike, sumirau pavana-kumara; bala buddhi vidya dehu mohi, harahu kalesa bikara.
- What is Samkhya? Philosophy
The first thing to emerge from root-nature is mahat , the great one, also called buddhi , intellect, the faculty of discernment and decision.
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
…he strands are churned, prakriti evolves in a fixed order, first into buddhi , intelligence, then into the "I-maker" ahamkara , then into mind and senses and their objects, down through the subtle elements to t…
- The vehicle Treatise
…physical body is not: the mind, manas ; the discriminating intellect, buddhi ; the sense of I, ahamkara ; the subtle counterparts of the senses; and prana , the vital breath.
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
It says dakshina here does not mean south at all. It means buddhi , the discriminating intellect.