Only when the manas does not take the five aggregates as self and what belongs to self is there the true elimination of self-view (ātma-dṛṣṭi)

What does "the five aggregates are not self, not different from self, and not present within each other" mean? Since we are to contemplate the five aggregates in order to eliminate the self-view, whose view is to be eliminated? Is it the view of the manas as self, or the view of the eighth consciousness as self? What view does the eighth consciousness have? Does it have a view that takes the five aggregates as itself? The eighth consciousness is without the nature of self; it has no self-view. It is the manas that takes the five aggregates as self, and thus there is a self-view. Therefore, it is the manas's self-view that is to be eliminated—it is to make the manas eliminate its self-view. After the self-view is eliminated, the result is the realization that the five aggregates are without self. What does this "self" refer to? It still refers to the deluded self, the manas; one cannot say that the five aggregates are without the eighth consciousness.

Since eliminating the self-view means making the manas eliminate its self-view, making the manas accept that the five aggregates are not self, and changing the manas's view and understanding that takes the five aggregates as self, then the final conclusion that the five aggregates are without self must mean that the five aggregates are not the self of the manas—the manas should no longer take the five aggregates as self.

The five aggregates are also not different from self; they are not possessed by the self of the manas. Both "self" and "what belongs to self" are not in accord with the Dharma; they are both wrong views (mithyā-dṛṣṭi) and must all be eliminated. Both self and what belongs to self are illusory appearances that arise and cease, impermanent and transformed; they are not real.

"Not present within each other" means that the self of the five aggregates and what belongs to self do not exist within one another: self is not within what belongs to self, and what belongs to self is not within the five aggregates. For the manas to take the five aggregates as self or as what belongs to self is erroneous; it is erroneous cognition (non-valid cognition). All these views must be eliminated—only then is it the true elimination of self-view (ātma-dṛṣṭi).