釋摩訶衍論 3.11

3.11

The treatise says: From beginningless time, there has never been a time when initial awakening prajñā was deluded or confused; and at this time of no delusion, it now initially awakens, hence it is called 'initial awakening'. Such initial awakening—if there were previous delusion followed by later awakening, it would not be initial awakening; yet in the principle of the time of no delusion, it is constantly now and constantly initial, and is therefore called initial awakening. Such initial awakening—among the two initial awakenings, which awakening is this? It refers to pure initial awakening, not defiled-and-pure initial awakening. What is the character of the distinction in literal meaning of defiled-and-pure initial awakening? The verse says: