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Buddhi:

Intelligence; that which flows from Buddha or the planet Mercury, the controller and significator of our finer thinking capacity or intelligence, which is known as Buddhi. This word is used throughout Sanskrit philosophical literature, such as in the verse in the Bhagavad-Gita spoken by Lord Krishna, which begins: "vyavasayatmika buddhi ekeha kuru nandana", which refers to the one-pointed intelligence of those who are devoted to Krishna.

 Depending on the context, Buddhi can carry the following connotations :

1. The intellect,

 2. The ascertaining intelligence, or the intuitive aspect of consciousness by which the Self awakens to truth.

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A personal reflection on God by Sonali Kulkarni. ”I have grown up in Pune where the Ganesh Festival is celebrated in a big way. It is during the Ganesh festival that various cultural activities take place like dance, music, and drama and there I got a chance to showcase my talent.”

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The Jiva is the soul in union with the senses. It is limited by the body. It is endowed with egoism. The reflection of Purusha in the Buddhi or intellect appears as the ego or the empirical soul. It is associated with ignorance and Karma. It is subject to pleasure and pain, action and its fruits, and rotates in the cycle of births and deaths.

Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda

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Buddhi: "Intellect"; in Samkya Hinduism buddhi is the first and most important manifestation of prakriti (physical nature).

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buddhi: (Sanskrit) "Intellect, reason, logic." The intellectual or disciplined mind. Buddhi is characterized by discrimination (viveka), voluntary restraint (vairagya), cultivation of calmness (shanti), contentment (santosha) and forgiveness (kshama). It is a faculty of manomaya kosha, the instinctive-intellectual sheath. See: intellectual mind, kosha, mind (individual).

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BUDDHI: Intellect.

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buddhi: (Sanskrit) "Intellect, reason, logic."

The intellectual or disciplined mind. Buddhi is characterized by discrimination (viveka), voluntary restraint (vairagya), cultivation of calmness (shanti), contentment (santosha) and forgiveness (kshama). It is a faculty of manomaya kosha, the instinctive-intellectual sheath.

See: intellectual mind, kosha, mind (individual).

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buddhi:

buddhi - wisdom, reason

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buddhi:

buddhi. Intellect.

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A Theosophical definition of Buddhi :

Buddhi

(Sanskrit) Buddhi comes from a Sanskrit root budh, commonly translated "to enlighten," but a better translation is "to perceive," "to cognize," "to recover consciousness," hence "to awaken," and therefore "to understand." The second counting downwards, or the sixth counting upwards, of the seven principles of man. Buddhi is the principle or organ in man which gives to him spiritual consciousness, and is the vehicle of the most high part of man  - the atman  - the faculty which manifests as understanding, judgment, discrimination, an inseparable veil or garment of the atman.

From another point of view, buddhi may truly be said to be both the seed and the fruit of manas.

Man's ordinary consciousness in life in his present stage of evolution is almost wholly in the lower or intermediate duad (manas-kama) of his constitution; when he raises his consciousness through personal effort to become permanently one with the higher duad (atma-buddhi), he becomes a mahatma, a master. At the death of the human being, this higher duad carries away with it all the spiritual essence, all the spiritual and intellectual aroma, of the lower or intermediate duad. Maha-buddhi is one of the names given to the kosmic principle mahat.

(See also Alaya)

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Buddhi: (Bodhi) Enlightenment or awakening; to awake or become conscious; perfect enlightenment or wisdom. Brandon notes three kinds: the disciple of the Buddha, the isolated and independently attained enlightened one, and the universal Buddha who also independently attained enlightenment and proclaims that enlightenment to others.

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Buddhi

In Theosophy, the Second Cosmic Principle or Aspect. Humanity calls this principle Love, while the Hierarchy calls it "Pure Reason".

Normally, people confuse true Love (the Christian agape) with emotions that have their source in the Astral Plane, which (due to their origin) are subject to fluctuations, and are not truly universal .

True Love emanates from the Buddhic Plane, and begins to "flow through" after certain developments of the mind are present. At the same time, the state of being immersed in Buddhi (Love, or Pure Reason) will somehow reflect in the emotional ,or astral, vehicle of the spiritual aspirant (the source of all emotions), expressing itself as tranquility, peace, intimate joy and an equal disposition to every fellow humans and other forms of life.

Humanity is currently beginning to tune in and express this principle. The principle of Manas was developed in a previous solar system, while in this one Manas will perfected and the Buddhic principle will be developed to a high degree. This is the goal of the Solar Logos, and when the majority of all human (or similar) forms in this system has achieved an evolutionary stage analogous to that of the Fifth Initiation, the task of the Logos will be completed, and systemic pralaya will begin.

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Buddhi (Sanskrit). Universal Soul or Mind. Mahabuddhi is a name of Mahat (see "Alaya"); also the spiritual Soul in man (the sixth principle), the vehicle of Atma exoterically the seventh.

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Buddhi: Wisdom, the higher mind or intellect.

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Buddhi:

Buddhi: intellect; understanding; reason.

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Buddhi:

Buddhi ("she who is conscious, awake"): the higher mind, which is the seat of wisdom (vidya, jnana); cf. manas

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Buddhi (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root budh to awaken, enlighten, know)

The spiritual soul, the faculty of discriminating, the channel through which streams divine inspiration from the atman to the ego, and therefore that faculty which enables us to discern between good and evil -- spiritual conscience. The qualities of the buddhic principle when awakened are higher judgment, instant understanding, discrimination, intuition, love that has no bounds, and consequent universal forgiveness.

In the theosophical scheme, it is the sixth principle counting upwards in the human constitution: the vehicle of pure, universal spirit, hence an inseparable garment or vehicle of atman. In its essence of the highest plane of akasa or alaya, buddhi stands in the same relation to atman as, on the cosmic scale, mulaprakriti does to parabrahman.

Buddhi uses manas as its garment, and in the former are likewise stored the fruitages of the many incarnations on earth; hence buddhi is often called both the seed and flower of manas. Buddhi is truly the center of spiritual consciousness and therefore its qualities are enduring. The purer and higher part of manas must awaken, by rising to it, this essential energy that inherently resides in buddhi so that the latter may become active in a person's life. Buddha and Christ are examples of sages who had become human imbodiments of the usually latent qualities of buddhi. Buddhi becomes more or less conscious on this plane by the flowerings it draws from manas after every incarnation of the ego. "Buddhi would remain only an impersonal spirit without this element which it borrows from the human soul, which conditions and makes of it, in this illusive Universe, as it were something separate from the universal soul for the whole period of the cycle of incarnation" (Key 159-60).

"No purely spiritual Buddhi (divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal Sixth principle, -- or the over-soul, -- has (a) passed through every elemental form of the phenomenal world of that Manvantara, and (b) acquired individuality, first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its Karma), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest Manas, from mineral and plant, up to the holiest archangel (Dhyani-Buddha)" (SD 1:17).

In the human constitution buddhi is a ray from the cosmic principle mahabuddhi or adi-buddhi, a synonym for alaya, pradhana, or the Second Logos, while akasa in its higher reaches is identic with alaya.

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