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It receives the object together with the sense
impression.
Na: Santiraõa – investigating consciousness
It investigates the object and the impression.
Vo: Voññhapana – determining consciousness
It determines whether the object is good or bad.
Ja: Javana – impulsive consciousness
One of the 29 kàma-javana cittas arises seven times
enjoying the taste of the sense-object.
So far 16 conscious-moments have elapsed since the genesis
of the sense-object at the eye-door, and only one conscious-moment
is left before the object dissolves. So two tadàlambaõa cittas
(registering consciousness) can no longer arise. (Tadàlambaõa arises
only in ati-mahantà-rammaõa). One bhavaïga citta arise instead,
and the sense-object and the cakkhu-pasàda, which have arisen
together, dissolve together at the dissolving instant of that bhavaïga
citta. After that the life-continuum flows on as usual.
B
In the second mahantà-rammaõa vãthi, the intensity of the
sense-object is a little weaker than the intensity of the object
in (1). So after the genesis of the sense-object at the eyedoor,
three atàta-bhavaïga cittas pass by before the object
becomes well developed and distinct at the eye-door. Then
the life-continuum vibrates and becomes arrested (Na-Da).
After that the cognitive series proceeds as in (1), i.e., in the
order of pa¤ca-dvàràvajjana, cakkhu-vi¤¤àõa, sampañicchana,
santiraõa, voññhapana and seven javanas. At the dissolving
instant of the seventh javana the object and the cakkhu-pasàda
(eye-door) also dissolve. So the cognitive series terminates
and life-continuum proceeds as usual.