妙法蓮華經玄贊 5.74

5.74

贊曰：此述今逢。退大心已後，佛知怖大情局小果，化以聲聞令證無學，漸導誘之名為方便；證生空理無漏智起，住佛法內名我法中，從佛法所生爾乃是真生故。且如鶖子退姓，大姓近生而遠熟，所以初發大心而中退，小姓近熟而遠生，所以中發小心而證果。初教發於大意，為令證實之因；中求小而果成，為令捨權之漸也。

The Commentary says: This recounts the present meeting. After he retrogressed from the great mind, the Buddha knew that he feared the great and was emotionally limited to the lesser fruit, so he transformed him through the śrāvaka [vehicle] to cause him to realize the stage of non-learning (aśaikṣa), gradually guiding and enticing him, which is called expedient means; realizing the principle of the emptiness of birth (pudgala-nairātmya), undefiled wisdom arose, and dwelling within the Buddha's Dharma is called "in my Dharma," for only being born from the Buddha's Dharma is true birth. Furthermore, just as in the case of Śāriputra's retrogressing gotra: the great gotra was newly generated but ripened far in the future, so he initially generated the great mind but retrogressed midway; the lesser gotra was ripened in the near term but generated long ago, so midway he generated the lesser mind and realized the fruit. The initial teaching to generate the great intention was to make a cause for realizing the real; midway seeking the lesser and accomplishing the fruit was the gradual step to cause relinquishing the provisional.