Understood, thanks for taking precious time from your practice to explain these delicate concepts.

The difference in meaning of awareness or knowing and consciousness used in Pali canon as an aggregate to be destroyed always troubled me, now it is clarified. It is a very nuanced detail, you caught it rightly.

i read your response twice and very slowly on cognizance nature of mind it is beautifully articulated. It is final state of absorption or immersion in pure knowingness of mind.

Very systematically articulated by the Tibetan author!

Thanks for sharing!

I am convinced of your explanation on how it is used in Buddhism.

in Sankhya, chitta or mind is inert or semi-inert, it gets its awareness from atma. Here, there is division of the unity of chitta/mind and its attributes. That is water and its attribute or property of wetness is different and distinct.

Only the interpretation of the nature of the mind are different but the immersion or absorption or samadhi state in which these truths spoken by respective monks are valid.

I am convinced by your explanations of the usage and applications of these words in Buddhism, it cleaned up my psyche.