Actualization Is Necessarily the Product of Multiple Contributing Factors

The shallowness of the wisdom of manas arises because the dharmas it apprehends are too extensive, preventing it from discerning and contemplating with focused precision. Additionally, the heavy burden of one's own afflictions and habitual tendencies causes the mind to cling to objects everywhere, unable to concentrate. However, in a state of meditative concentration (dhyāna), manas can maintain the highest degree of focus, thereby enhancing the power of its contemplative wisdom. Consciousness (vijñāna) also becomes readily capable of direct observation (pratyakṣa-pramāṇa), and the likelihood that manas will affirm the conclusions drawn from consciousness's direct observation increases significantly. This makes the emergence of experiential realization (pratyakṣa-phala) much more likely.

In summary, experiential realization is necessarily the product of numerous contributing factors. These include the conditions of meditative concentration, the direct observation by consciousness, the sustained focus of manas, and the potent contemplative power of manas, which ultimately allows manas to confirm the realization. Among all these factors, meditative concentration serves as the prerequisite condition. Without dhyāna, consciousness finds direct observation difficult, manas struggles to maintain focus, and manas is unlikely to readily affirm the observations of consciousness. Therefore, in the process of experiential realization, meditative concentration plays an absolutely crucial role. The prerequisite for meditative concentration is the observance of precepts (śīla), ensuring the mind does not move chaotically. The prerequisite for properly observing the precepts is the accumulation of merit (puṇya). None of the Six Pāramitās of a Bodhisattva can be omitted.