維摩經略疏 8.53

8.53

今言大弟子神力去華者，若依事釋，天女散華諸菩薩皆墮，至大弟子便著不墮。身子遠嫌避疑，所以去華。理釋者，明二乘人厭世五欲而取涅槃，此則心有去取。今見菩薩果報五欲，亦謂為不如法，捨離推却而不得去。「盡其神力」者，以羅漢住思議解脫，雖有神力，別惑不斷，不得不思議解脫自在，故不能去。

Now, regarding the statement that the great disciples used their supernatural powers to shake off the flowers: if explained in terms of literal events, when the heavenly maiden scattered the flowers, they all fell off the bodhisattvas, but upon reaching the great disciples they adhered and did not fall off. Śāriputra wished to keep away from censure and avoid suspicion, and therefore shook off the flowers. In terms of principle, it explains that persons of the two vehicles detest the five worldly desires and grasp at nirvāṇa; thus their minds have rejection and grasping. Now, seeing the bodhisattvas' retribution five desires, they also deem them not in accordance with the Dharma, and though they try to cast them off and push them away, they cannot rid themselves of them. 'Exerting all their supernatural power' means that because the arhats abide in conceivable liberation, although they have supernatural power, they have not severed distinct illusions and have not attained the sovereign mastery of inconceivable liberation; therefore, they cannot rid themselves of them.