維摩經略疏 6.80

6.80

From "Śāntamati [said]" downward is the second part: declining the command as unworthy. The text has four parts: first, declining the command as unworthy; second, recounting the reason for being unworthy; third, directly recounting the matter of being refuted; fourth, concluding his unworthiness. As for the first passage: truly, because in the past he held an assembly for seven days that was not an assembly of the Dharma gift and could not benefit beings, incurring rebuke, how could he be worthy to convey the decree and go inquire after the illness?