大乘起信論裂網疏 3.63

3.63

[Text of the treatise:] As for 'mental consciousness', it means that all ordinary beings, based on the continuous consciousness, cling to a self and what belongs to a self, and falsely grasp in various ways the sense-objects of the six dusts. It is also named 'separating consciousness', and also named 'consciousness that discriminates phenomena'. Because it increases through perfuming by views, craving, and so forth.