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<noinclude>The '''five ever-present mental states''' (Skt. ''sarvatraga''; Tib. [[ཀུན་འགྲོ་ལྔ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''kun ‘gro lnga'') are a set of five mental states among the [[fifty-one mental states]], so-called because they always accompany the [[main mind]]. Without them, the main mind could not perceive any objects. They are:

</noinclude>#[[Sensation]] (Skt. ''vedanā''; Tib. [[ཚོར་བ་]])
#[[Perception]] (Skt. ''saṃjña''; Tib. [[འདུ་ཤེས་]])
#[[Intention]] (Skt. ''cetanā''; Tib. [[སེམས་པ་]])
#[[Contact]] (Skt. ''sparśa''; Tib. རེག་པ་ or [[རེག་བྱ་]])
#[[Attention]] (Skt. ''manaskāra''; Tib. [[ཡིད་བྱེད་]])<noinclude>

==Alternative Translations==
*ever-functioning subsidiary awarenesses (Alexander Berzin)
*five ever-present factors

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