Shloka 31
Adhyāya 42 — Mahābhūta–Indriya–Adhyātma-Vyavasthā
Brahmā’s Instruction on Elements and Faculties
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adhyātmaṁ buddhir ity āhuḥ ṣaḍindriya-vicāriṇī
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वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that adhyātma (the inner spiritual principle) is identified with buddhi, the discriminative intellect that evaluates and directs the functioning of the six senses; ethical agency rests in cultivated discernment.
Vāyudeva is explaining a doctrinal classification of inner faculties, defining adhyātma in terms of buddhi and describing its role as the deliberator over the six sense faculties.