Nama

Nāma : (lit. 'name'): 'mind', mentality. This term is generally used as a collective name for the four mental groups (arūpino khandha), viz. feeling (vedanā), perception (saññā), mental formations (sa ṅ khāra ) and consciousness (viññā ṇ a '').  Within the 4th factor (nāma-rūpa) in the formula of the pa ṭ iccasamuppāda  (q.v.), however, it applies only to kamma-resultant (vipāka) ''feeling and perception and a few kamma-resultant mental functions inseparable from any consciousness. As it is said (M. 9; D. 15; S. XII, 2): "Feeling (vedanā), perception (saññā), volition (cetanā), impression (phassa), attention (manasikāra): this, o brother, is called mind'' (nāma)." With the addition of two more mental factors, namely, mental (life)-faculty (jīvita) and concentration (samādhi), here 'stationary phase of mind' (citta ṭṭ <span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"VU Times"">hiti <span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"VU Times"">), <span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"VU Times""> these 7 factors are said in the Abhidhammatthasa <span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family: "VU Times","serif"">ṅ '<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family: "VU Times"">gaha <span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"VU Times""> '''<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"VU Times"">to be the inseparable mental factors in any state of consciousness.

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