The Thought of Mind Consciousness Is the Result of the Thinking of Manas

If it is a dharma that the manas does not recollect, how could the mind consciousness recollect it? When the manas comes into contact with the dharma it recollects and wishes to discern it clearly, the tathāgatagarbha, in accordance with this, gives rise to the mind consciousness; the mind consciousness, following the manas's instructions, then discerns and recollects the dharma that the manas recollects. If the manas does not recollect a dharma, it does not come into contact with that dharma and does not wish to discern or act upon it, and the tathāgatagarbha cannot give rise to the mind consciousness for further recollecting activity; there would then be no mind consciousness to recollect the dharma. Whatever dharma the manas does not recollect will not appear; the dharmas that the mind consciousness recollects are all the result of the manas's recollection, all the result of the manas's arrangement and mobilization. The mind consciousness cannot arise without the conditioning contact of the manas, and cannot arise without the determination of the manas's deliberation (manasikāra) mental factor; the mind consciousness cannot by itself decide its own arising and all its activities. He is not the master consciousness; because of His lack of self-mastery (avaśatā), He is the tool of the manas, obeying the manas's dispatch.