Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.130

c16.130

That *Ahaṁkāra* is the product of *Buddhi* is evident from the fact that discriminative experience which Buddhi represents must needs implicate a self-conscious and individual subject. At every moment of comparing things, there arises the consciousness of *I*. This stage is called that of *Ahaṁkāra* (*Sachābhimānātmakaḥ | Yathā ahaṁ rase raktaḥ ahaṁ śabde saktaḥ ahaṁ Iśvaraḥ asau mayāhataḥ*).