成唯識論演祕 2.60

2.60

This refers to the nimitta-bhāga transformed by the five consciousnesses in past lives perfuming and generating subsequent actualities, which now serve as the objects of consciousness. Therefore, the Guan suoyuan lun (Ālambanaparīkṣā) states: "Or the nimitta of a prior consciousness serves as the condition for a posterior consciousness, inducing the potentiality in the fundamental consciousness to produce a likeness of its own fruit to arise, because this does not contradict reason."