One-pointedness occurs not in the sense of a factor of absorption but in the sense of the limitation of consciousness to a particular object. Attention can be seen in relation to one-pointedness. One-pointedness and attention are the negative and positive aspects of the same function. One-pointedness limits one's experience to a particular object whereas attention directs one's awareness to a particular object. One-pointedness and attention function together to isolate and make one conscious of a particular object.
Vitality refers to the force which binds together the other six states of consciousness.
We have already encountered some of these in the context of the factors of absorption. Desire, therefore, has both a wholesome and an unwholesome function, depending both on the object of desire and on the other mental states with which desire is associated. Let us go on to look at the unwholesome mental states. Let us look at the group headed by delusion. Both shamelessness and fearlessness have moral and ethical connotations, which function internally and externally.