Is it the mind consciousness or the manas that determines reliance on a single dharma-mark?

Taking refuge in a dharma-characteristic is determined by the manas; only after the determination is made can the five aggregates and the six consciousnesses begin to take refuge under His guidance. Why does the manas make this decision? Because He has seen this dharma-characteristic, recognized it, and knows that it is firm and reliable, that it can be relied upon, and that relying on it will bring benefit—only then does He decide to take refuge in it.

Therefore, if the manas has not eradicated the view of self (satkāya-dṛṣṭi) and has not seen the mind and realized what is true, how could He know that the tathāgatagarbha is the true place of refuge? How could He, as the master, decide to rely even slightly on the tathāgatagarbha to create the bodily, verbal, and mental actions of the five-aggregate body? Thus, if only the mind consciousness attains realization and sees the mind, one cannot subdue the body, mind, and world, and afflictions will grow ever stronger, because one feels one has gained something and has added a self; where there is a self, there must be afflictions. Only when the manas also simultaneously attains realization and sees the mind can body and mind abide in meditative absorption (samādhi), subduing afflictions so that they become ever lighter, until they are finally eradicated.