妙法蓮華經玄贊 5.76

5.76

贊曰：下顯還令依前取實，分二：初談創興實意，為修權而忘實；後顯令憶本心，說《法華》而復本。此初也。「我昔教汝志願佛道」者，創興實意也。「汝今悉忘而便自謂已得滅度」者，為修權而忘實也。未證聲聞果前未得無漏宿命之智，雖六十劫練根得聲聞無漏，宿命智所知猶近故。昔修大乘汝今悉忘，便謂所得是實滅度，不肯進修。前卷請中，世世已曾從佛受化，今言忘者此中有四解：一自憶從佛修小，佛說教大悉忘。二佛說初教大乘今忘，自憶中途學小從化。三鶖子自憶、他人不憶，今寄之說他人，故言悉忘。四前說佛加故憶，今談自心故忘。亦不相違。

The Commentary says: The section below shows causing him to return to the former and grasp the real, divided into two: first, discussing the original arising of the real intention, yet because of cultivating the provisional he forgot the real; afterward, showing causing him to recall his original mind, speaking the Lotus Sūtra to return to the origin. This is the first. "I formerly taught you to aspire to the Buddha's path" is the original arising of the real intention. "You have now completely forgotten it and thereupon consider yourself to have already attained extinction" means that because of cultivating the provisional, he forgot the real. Before realizing the fruit of a śrāvaka, one has not yet attained the undefiled knowledge of past lives (pūrvenivāsānusmṛti-jñāna). Although he trained his faculties for sixty kalpas and attained the undefiled state of a śrāvaka, what is known by his knowledge of past lives is still short-range. Therefore, you have now completely forgotten past cultivation of the Great Vehicle, and thereupon say that what you attained is true extinction, unwilling to advance in cultivation. In the entreaty of the previous fascicle, [he states that] in lifetime after lifetime he had already received transformation from the Buddha; here saying he has "forgotten" has four explanations: 1. He himself remembers cultivating the lesser under the Buddha, but completely forgot that the Buddha taught the great. 2. The Buddha states that he initially taught the Great Vehicle which is now forgotten, while Śāriputra himself remembers learning the lesser midway and following that transformation. 3. Śāriputra himself remembers, but others do not remember; this is now projected onto others, hence saying "completely forgotten." 4. Earlier it was said that due to the Buddha's empowerments he remembered, while now it discusses his own mind, hence he forgot. These also do not contradict each other.