Are bodily, verbal, and mental actions created by the mind consciousness or by the manas?

The bodily, verbal, and mental actions are all fabricated by the mind consciousness, driven and compelled by the ignorance of the manas. If the manas had no ignorance, it would not prompt the mind consciousness to fabricate ignorance-defiled karma. This is what is taught in the twelve links of dependent origination: the ignorance of the manas prompts the arising of the manas's mental factor of deliberation (manana), giving rise to the decision to fabricate bodily, verbal, and mental actions; after the manas makes its decision, the mind consciousness and the five sense consciousnesses arise and fabricate bodily, verbal, and mental actions that accord with the manas's mental activity and decisions. The manas is the one in charge; the mind consciousness merely obeys the regulation and control of the manas. For example, when a five-year-old child goes out to buy soy sauce, it is because an adult instructed him to; the adult at home takes charge of managing the daily necessities, and when supplies run short, the child is sent to buy them. For example, an employee's work is arranged and assigned by the manager, and the employee must obey the leadership's management. For example, the development of all trades and professions in society is deployed by the nation's top leadership core; the subordinate units must carry out their work according to the deployment of the higher leadership departments and may not defy orders. 

On the surface, the bodily, verbal, and mental actions of sentient beings are all fabricated by the mind consciousness and the five sense consciousnesses, but in essence they manifest the will and propositions of the manas, manifesting the manas's habitual tendencies and habits. Only when the master and the servant operate in harmony can the five-aggregate body function in a coordinated way; if they cannot operate in harmony, it will lead to the manas's mental fragmentation and collapse, resulting in mental illness. Of course, sometimes when the manas does not understand certain dharmas, it has no ideas or propositions of its own and will defer to the opinions and views of the mind consciousness—sometimes even blindly deferring, without really understanding whether what the mind consciousness proposes is actually right. At such times, the mind consciousness appears powerful. But if the manas has wisdom, the mind consciousness cannot be stronger than the manas; it is always the manas itself that takes charge and makes the decisions.