22. As I understand this third theory, it is not claiming that there is no object, and only mental production—which would make this type of cognition parikalpita (false imagining), and not parinisṃpanna (consummate comprehension)—but rather that all cognitive distance, all “obstructions,” etc., have been eliminated so that objects appear directly and immediately just as they are. The ālambana needn’t convey an image from the object to the mind, since the mind automatically and instantaneously gives rise to an impression of the object that is exact and accurate in every detail. No middle man or mediating process between mind and object is required. One sees things just as they are because the mind has ceased to impose imaginary constructions. One’s own mental seeds—since they are now no longer contaminated by distorting hindrances—are always already identical to the object in itself.