The word rapa (corporeal body) refers to everything made of the four primary elements (i.e. the earth element, the water element, the fire element, and the air element). But here it refers mostly to the corporeal body which arises together with the remaining four aggregates of clinging.

Feeling is described in vedana (feelings) . Perception recognizes or perceives an object by means of a mark. It enables one to recognize colours such as blue, white or red. It can also wrongly recognize a rope as a snake.

Mental formations include faith, energy, intention, greed, hatred, delusion, non-greed, non-hatred, nondelusion, and mindfulness which prepare, arrange, or accomplish actions. There are fifty mental formations. Consciousness is that which is aware of an object. Here it refers only to sensuous, rapa and arapa types of consciousness and does not include path or fruition consciousness (magga-phala citta) which are not objects of clinging.