This prevents the associated consciousnesses (including the sixth, mano-vijñāna, and seventh, kliṣṭa-manas) from ‘landing.’ No object is present to consciousness and no act of noesis can imbue it with feeling tone or meaning in such a state.
"Fearful of wasting the long time they cultivated bodhisattva practices, they thereupon use the power of vows and pure, superior samādhi, just as the life prolonging dharmas [of arhats] are the cause of preserving their present bodies..." 1/
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"...and prevent the results from being terminated for a long time. In this way, over and over, their samādhi and vows assist them up to the time of the realization of supreme bodhi." 2/2 -Xuanzang, Cheng Weishi Lun
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