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adhyavasáya, hold the Sankhyas, is the same
with Intellect or Buddhi. The significance of Intellection.
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 ?
'No', reply the Sankhyas, as it is characterised by the presence of the three-fold rudimentary currents under particular combina
tion and condition which is nothing but the The Purush is simple.
• 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 (11) Ahankar
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 inakes the jar is called Kumbhakar or
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