Buddhi (Intellect)

Buddhi

Sanskrit: बुद्धि
Transliteration: Buddhi (IAST)
Translation: “intellect; the discriminative faculty (from the verb root budh – “to enlighten, to know”)”

Definition: The ascertaining intelligence and the impersonal or superpersonal state of consciousness of a limited individual. The first evolute of primordial Nature (Prakṛti). It is the basis of the intelligence of the individual. It is the determinative faculty and by it one resolves upon a course of action.

Reference:

Grimes, John (1996). A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit Terms Defined in English. Albany: State University of New York Press