Master, may I ask: in deep meditative concentration (for example, being absorbed for several days), will the manas leave the body?
The manas follows the tathāgatagarbha through past lives and the present, throughout the ten-directional worlds—it can go anywhere; it is just that the mind consciousness does not know about it. The attainment of the mind-made body (manomaya-kāya) also lies in the manas.
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