Is Consciousness the Nature of Awareness?

The mind consciousness has the function of awareness and cognition, but it cannot be directly called the nature of awakening (bodhi-nature). This is because the nature of awakening represents the awakened mind-nature, generally referring to the non-ignorant nature of the eighth consciousness as the fundamental essence, and sometimes also referring to the sixth and seventh consciousnesses that possess great wisdom after awakening. When there is no wisdom and no awakening, it cannot be called the nature of awakening. One may say that the mind consciousness has the capacity of knowing, being able to know various mental sense-object states.