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<noinclude>The '''five ever-present mental states''' (Skt. ''sarvatraga''; Tib. [[ཀུན་འགྲོ་ལྔ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''kun ‘gro lnga'') are a set of five mental states among the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because they always accompany the [[main mind]]. Without them, the main mind could not perceive any objects. They are: | <noinclude>The '''five ever-present mental states''' (Skt. ''sarvatraga''; Tib. [[ཀུན་འགྲོ་ལྔ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''kun ‘gro lnga'') are a set of five mental states among the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because they always accompany the [[main mind]]. Without them, the main mind could not perceive any objects. They are: | ||
</noinclude>#Sensation (Skt. ''vedanā''; Tib. [[ཚོར་བ་]], Wyl. ''tshor ba'') | </noinclude>#[[Sensation]] (Skt. ''vedanā''; Tib. [[ཚོར་བ་]], Wyl. ''tshor ba'') | ||
#Perception (Skt. ''saṃjña''; Tib. [[འདུ་ཤེས་]], Wyl. ''‘du shes'') | #Perception (Skt. ''saṃjña''; Tib. [[འདུ་ཤེས་]], Wyl. ''‘du shes'') | ||
#Intention (Skt. ''cetanā''; Tib. [[སེམས་པ་]], Wyl. ''sems pa'') | #Intention (Skt. ''cetanā''; Tib. [[སེམས་པ་]], Wyl. ''sems pa'') | ||
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The five ever-present mental states (Skt. sarvatraga; Tib. ཀུན་འགྲོ་ལྔ་, Wyl. kun ‘gro lnga) are a set of five mental states among the fifty-one mental states, so-called because they always accompany the main mind. Without them, the main mind could not perceive any objects. They are:
- Sensation (Skt. vedanā; Tib. ཚོར་བ་, Wyl. tshor ba)
- Perception (Skt. saṃjña; Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་, Wyl. ‘du shes)
- Intention (Skt. cetanā; Tib. སེམས་པ་, Wyl. sems pa)
- Contact (Skt. sparśa; Tib. རེག་པ་ or རེག་བྱ་, Wyl. reg pa, reg bya)
- Attention (Skt. manaskāra; Tib. ཡིད་བྱེད་, Wyl. yid byed)
Alternative Translations
- ever-functioning subsidiary awarenesses (Alexander Berzin)
- feeling; feeling a level of happiness (Berzin)
- discernment or recognition (Berzin)
- an urge (Berzin)
- contacting awareness (Berzin)
- mental engagement; paying attention or taking to mind (Berzin)