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Intellection.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM adhyavasáya, hold the Sånkhyas, is the same with Intellect or Buddhi. The significance of certitude is its characteristic indication. It is best revealed as the decisive principle in the oughtness of a particular thought and action in the different spheres of our life.
But is intellection a purely psychical
process ?
The Purush is simple.
'No', reply the Sankhyas, 'as it is characterised by the presence of the three-fold rudimentary currents under particular combination and condition which is nothing but the integration and intellectualisation born of the disturbance of the gunas in equipoise whereas the Purush, the Psyché or the Soul being neither evolvent nor evolute, is quite opposite of them both i.e. ABSOLUTELY SIMPLE.
Next the word Ahankar is synonymous with Abhiman, pride or conceit, bearing the sense of self-estimation or self-consciousness as conveyed in such expressions in our ordinary parlance as 'I am : and I feel all these that surround me are mine : I can use them as materials of my knowledge to answer my own purpose.' The Sankhyas say that just as he who makes the jar is called Kumbhakár or
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