The knowing of the mind consciousness must perfume the manas in order to be effective

Many people give rise to afflictions, which have a bad influence on both themselves and others. The mind consciousness knows it should not be this way, yet it can do nothing about it. The mind consciousness cannot control the manas, and can only let the manas' afflictions manifest, being at the mercy of the manas. The mind consciousness knows it should not be so, but its knowing is not detailed; the manas does not know, and so it cannot manage to be free of afflictions. The mind consciousness should carefully deliberate in order to permeate and imprint the manas. Once the manas understands the principle, the mind consciousness will be able to control the manas, and will manage to be free of afflictions.

It is the manas that carries ignorance and afflictions to future lives, not the mind consciousness. Therefore, whatever the mind consciousness has learned, known, and understood must in every case be implemented in the manas; otherwise, once the mind consciousness ceases, the manas, being ignorant and unknowing, will take rebirth, and there will be no good retribution. Two birds in the forest are not as good as one bird in the hand. If what the mind consciousness has known, understood, and learned is not delivered into the storehouse, then once the mind consciousness ceases, there will be no usable seeds in future lives—would that not be a pity?