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The sound of the mango-fruit striking the ground awakens
the traveler and causes him to raise his head. This event is similar
to the appearance of the visible object at the eye-door causing
the life-continuum to vibrate twice and become arrested.
The traveler opens his eyes and looks around to enquire what
causes the sound. This conduct is similar to the pa¤cadvàra-vajjana
adverting the consciousness-stream towards the sense-object.
The traveler sees the mango-fruit. This is analogous to the
eye-consciousness seeing the object. The man picks up the
mango-fruit. This is similar to the sampañicchana receiving the
visible object.
The man then inspects the mango-fruit whether it is suitable
for eating. This is similar to the santàraõa investigating the senseobject.
The man decides that the mango-fruit is good and edible.
This is similar to the voññhapana deciding that the sense-object
is good.
Being hungry, the man bites the mango-fruit seven times
eating and enjoying the taste. This is similar to the occurrence
of seven javana-cittas enjoying the taste of the sense-object.
Then the man gathers the remnants of the fruit and the
juice sticking on the teeth with his tongue and swallows twice.
This is similar to the two tadàlambaõa cittas following javanas
and enjoying the taste of the sense-object.
Then the man lies down and falls asleep. This is similar to
bhavaïga cittas sinking into life-continuum.
Pa¤cadvàra-vãthi Cittas
If we examine the pa¤cadvàra vãthis, we shall notice that seven
types of consciousness participate in the vãthis. The seven types
of consciousness are: