Why Does the Ālayavijñāna Not Have Seeds of Ignorance?

In the ālayavijñāna, it is naturally so (法尔如是) that there exist seeds of the seventh consciousness (manas), yet there is no seed of fundamental ignorance belonging to the seventh consciousness. Why is this said? Because all seeds are karmic seeds left behind by the bodily, verbal, and mental actions that have been performed; without karma there are no seeds—except for the seven intrinsically existing great seeds. The seventh consciousness is perpetually present together with the ālayavijñāna; at the very beginning, there were no six consciousnesses and no body of the five aggregates, so no karmic actions could be performed, and thus no seeds could be deposited in the ālayavijñāna. After the six consciousnesses and the body of the five aggregates came into existence and performed bodily, verbal, and mental actions, this was precisely dependent upon the ignorance of the seventh consciousness. If the seventh consciousness had no ignorance, it would not give rise to the six consciousnesses and the body of the five aggregates; then there would be no karmic actions, no great chiliocosm—only utter stillness. If the seventh consciousness truly had no ignorance, it would have already entered nirvāṇa—and moreover, the nirvāṇa of the Buddha stage. It is thus evident that the seventh consciousness possesses in full all fundamental ignorance, and therefore it raises up the world and the world of sentient beings, with transmigration continuing without end.