The Power of Manas

As cultivation deepens continuously and concentration (samadhi) and wisdom (prajna) become increasingly sufficient, the mental faculty (manas) gradually grows powerful. The sign of the mental faculty becoming powerful is the transformation of consciousness into wisdom, signifying a change in the mental factors (caittas). The strength of the mental faculty represents the strength of the mental factors; when the mental factors are strong, the mental faculty becomes strong and invincible. The five omnipresent mental factors, the five object-determining mental factors, and the eleven wholesome mental factors have long been completely eradicated, though perhaps some very subtle habitual afflictions and minor attachments to dharmas remain. When the mental faculty becomes sufficiently powerful, it will supersede the six consciousnesses, no longer requiring their assistance to independently perceive the objects of the six sense fields, whether coarse or subtle. At this stage, supreme supernatural powers will manifest.