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| | Buddhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Buddhi (Sanskrit, "intellect") in Sanskrit (Hindu) literature is the higher mental faculty, the instrument of knowledge, discerment, and decision. |
 | | Buddhi, however, is a higher faculty that acts in sense percepts organized by manas and furnishes intellectual discrimination, determination, reason, and will. |
 | | Buddhi is the first principle derived from unmanifest, prakrti (and predominant in sattva guna, ("intellectual stuff"), virtually transparent reflector for pure consciousness (purusa), with which buddhi mistakenly identifies. |
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