Hi Lal,
“When one gets attached to any single material thing, a whole host of mental aggregates get involved around it.”
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“Also, we need to keep in mind that even the rupakkhandha is mental too, in the sense that when we see a rupa, it is instantly added to the memory as a mental impression of that rupa…”
I would reckon that the rupakkhandha is akin to the namarupa in the akusala-mula pavutti paticca samuppada cycles. i.e. namarupa paccaya vinnana, thereby giving rise to our defiled consciousness. If that is the case, is there any distinction between the vinnana in the akusala-mula pavutti paticca samuppada cycles and the vinnanakkhandha in the case of pancaupadanakkhandha?