As Long as Consciousness Exists, the Manas Will Not Depart from the Five-Aggregate Body.

The mind consciousness appears in the womb at four or five months, and continues until birth. Without the mind consciousness, the fetus cannot be born; the process of birth involves the participation of the mind consciousness, and a birth without the mind consciousness is death. Even an anencephalic baby born with congenital defects carries a faint mind consciousness; otherwise it would be a stillbirth and could not be born. A person in a vegetative state also has weak consciousness; otherwise they too would die. As long as the mind consciousness exists, the manas will not leave the five-aggregate body. He is extremely attached to the functions and activities of the six-consciousness body, because the manas itself cannot do anything; He must use the six consciousnesses to act, and use the body to act.