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 134 Buddhist Philosophy ECHo awakened). The second name is evolving-consciousness (pravftti- vi.fiitilla) in the sense that when the mind is disturbed, there evolves that which sees an external world. The third name is representation-consciousness in the sense that the ego (manas) represents (or reflects) an external world. As a clean mirror reflects the images of all description, it is even so with the repre- sentation-consciousness. Then it is confronted, for instance, with the objects of the five senses, it represents them instantaneously and without effort. The fourth is particularization-consciousness, in the sense that it discriminates between different things defiled as well as pure. The fifth name is succession-consciousness, in the sense that continuously directed by the awakening consciousness of attention (11lanaskiira) it (1Ilallas) retains all experiences and never loses or suffers the destruction of any karma, good as well as evil, which had been sown in the past, and Those retribution, painful or agreeable, it never fails to mature, be it in the present or in the future, and also in the sense that it unconsciously recollects things gone by and in imagination anticipates things to come. Therefore the three domains (kii11laloka, domain of feeling-ritpaloka, domain of bodily existence-aritpaloka, domain of incorporeality) are nothing but the self manifestation of the mind (i.e. iilaya'lIijiiana which is practically identical with bhuta- tatltatli). Since all things, owing the principle of their existence to the mind (alaya'l'i]Tziilla), are produced by smfti, all the modes of particularization are the self-particularizations of the mind. The mind in itself (or the soul) being however free from all attributes is not differentiated. Therefore we come to the conclusion that all things and conditions in the phenomenal world, hypostatized and established only through ignorance (avidJ 1 ii) and memory (Sl1lrtz), have no more reality than the images in a mirror. They arise simply from the ideality of a particularizing mind. When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is produced; but when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity of things disappears. By ego-consciousness (manovljili'illa) we mean the ignorant mind which by its succession-consciousness clings to the conception of I and Not-I and misapprehends the nature of the six objects of sense. The ego-consciousness is also called separation-conscious- ness, because it is nourished by the perfuming influence of the prejudices (asrava), inteilectual as well as affectional. Thus believ- ing in the external world produced by memory, the mind becomes