In plain words
Man cannot achieve even the smallest task without śraddhā
The Upaniṣad described the Buddhi as a bird. It made śraddhā the head of this bird called Buddhi. It set down Ṛta as the right wing and Satya as the left wing. It set down the yogas as the tail of this bird. It taught that its body is the principle of Manas. Śraddhā, Ṛta, Satya, yoga and the great power: all these are aspects of the Buddhi! Of the aspects of the Buddhi, śraddhā comes first. Man cannot achieve even the smallest task without śraddhā. Whatever work we do in life, there must be śraddhā. Eating, drinking, walking, reading: all these are the promptings of śraddhā! ‘Śraddhāvān labhate jñānaṃ.’ Jñāna too comes to us only through śraddhā. Not only this: the Bhagavad Gītā too has taught, ‘Śraddhā is My form.’ The Bhagavad Gītā also described the Buddhi as His form. So we must not regard the Buddhi in a merely ordinary way. It is joined to śraddhā, united with Ṛta and bound to Satya; it lives by yoga and stands firm in the great. We look on a Buddhi that stands on the measure of these five powers as something ordinary. All that we use today under the name ‘Buddhi’ is merely the Buddhi of Prakṛti. In truth, the name ‘Buddhi’ does not fit it. One may call it mere cleverness.
The divinity that shines in humanness as Satya and the eternal is the Buddhi
‘Is the Buddhi greater? Or is the power of intellect greater?’ When we inquire into this a little, the nature of the Buddhi becomes quite clear to us. Wishing to look into the matter of these two and recognise the Satya, Vikramāditya once set up a great assembly to examine it. Many of the greatest scholars gathered in this great assembly of Vikramāditya. All these great scholars decided that intellect was the greater.