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refer the ontic (ontic means sleeping, not functioning, acinta) consciousness (i.e.
subliminal consciousness, bhavavga). It always stands with the word bhavavga (i.e.
bhavavga-citta, bhavga-vibbana). The noetic stage of the mind sometimes has been
mentioned the functional citta. In this state, at this stage, mano, citta, vibbana all these
three functionals are working. We find the word manojava in the vimanavatthuatthakatha where the word is used to predicate the same function of the mind. It is the
functional sense: manabca paticca dhamme ca uppajjati manovibbana (In dependence
on mana and dhamma arises manovibbana.), (MN, Vol. II, 17). Here the word mano
stands as a sense or faculty or a sphere of perception.
According to Buddhism ayatanas are divided into two groups: inner objects
(ajjhattikaj) and outer objects (bahiraj). Here mano has to be recognized as inner object
or organ (ajjhattika-mano). Normally, the mind is functioned due to the vitality and the
receiving abilities of the six senses. If there is no vitality of the senses there never occurs
a thought process. All these six senses are inner senses. They are eye, ear, nose, tongue,
body, and mind. The mano refers here as a sense organ: ajjhattikaj ca avuso mano
aparibhinno hoti bahira ca dhamma na apataj Agacchanti no ca tajjo samannaharo hoti
neva tava tajjassa vibbanabhagassa patubhavo hoti (If, you reverence!, the mind that
is internal is intact and external mental object come within its range but there is no
appropriate intact then there is no an appearance of the appropriate section of
consciousness), (MN, Vol. I, 119).