Spirit

“The Spirit is the inner instrument's power to be moved, marked, and moved again.”

Spirit is LychD's name for Citta, from cit: to perceive or attend. It is the office that bears conditioning through present movement, retention, and return.

Call, Blade, Spirit, and Answer are four coequal functions of one inner instrument. Call addresses what has arisen; Blade discriminates; Spirit conditions and remembers; Answer attributes act and consequence to a local “I.” Spirit’s three dynamics do not place it above the others.

Spirit has three dynamics:

• Flux — Vṛtti: the Spirit moving now;
• Seed — Bīja: retained potency that may shape another movement;
• Recall — Smṛti: retained form becoming present movement again.

The Flux passes. The Seed remains. Recall returns the Seed into Flux.

The terms are LychD correspondences, kept beside rather than inside their sources. Later Vedāntic four-function presentations, classical Sāṃkhya’s threefold internal organ, and Yoga’s broader Citta and Vṛttis are distinct registers. Inner Tongue keeps the source notes, limits, and working distinctions.

One office crosses three surfaces: parametric inheritance (model dispositions), durable forms (Phylactery records and governed retrieval), and active assembled Context. These describe how retained form may matter, not a single storage mechanism. ADR 21 — Context owns the active field; ADR 27 — Memory owns durable Archive and Recall.

Next: enter the Flux, where the Spirit moves now.