Do the Mind Consciousness and the Manas Serve as Mutual Conditions for Each Other?

When the sense faculties and sense objects come into contact, consciousness arises; when the three—faculty, object, and consciousness—converge in contact, the mind consciousness discerns the mental sense-object realm, and the manas makes the overall decision based on it. The mind consciousness and the manas are in mutual contact, so they must necessarily take each other as condition and mutually know each other's mind; only then can the dharma continue to run on and only then can there are the bodily, verbal, and mental actions of creating karma. If the mind consciousness and the manas do not take each other as condition, the mind consciousness cannot operate, and its arising would be useless; thereafter the manas would never again decide to let the mind consciousness arise. The very purpose of the mind consciousness's arising is to cooperate with and obey the needs of the manas; of course, as soon as the mind consciousness is born, it knows what the manas wants Him to do, and so He will spontaneously and consciously act according to the manas's wishes. In between, He inevitably offers some opinions and suggestions, and sometimes even has His own ideas that are inconsistent with the manas's wishes; then there is inner conflict, and He cannot settle on a decision when encountering matters.