The subtlemost form of deluded consciousness, which serves as the substratum for karmic seeds to be stored; likewise the substratum from which appearances manifest.

The subtlemost form of deluded consciousness, which serves as the store-house for karmic seeds, therefore serving as the substratum from which appearances manifest.

The most subtle form of deluded consciousness, which serves as the substratum for karmic seeds to be stored; likewise the substratum from which appearances manifest.

Here, probably the short form for ālayavijñāna.

Identifiable with ālayavijñāna. However, as reference to the elaborate Vijñānavādin psychology of the “store-consciousness” is out of place in this sūtra, it is here simply translated “subconsciousness.”

See “subliminal cognition.”