說無垢稱經疏 2.50

2.50

Commentary: This praises the virtue of leaving behind all evil results. 'Fears of the evil destinies' refers to the three evil destinies, because the results of the three evil destinies are terrifying. Or the eight non-leisures are called terrifying, and others refer to evil paths as evil destinies. Or the five fears are called fears. Although abandoned at the first bhūmi, now at the eighth bhūmi and above their causes are further abandoned; cause and result are entirely extinguished, hence now described as 'eliminated'. Ascending to rebirth among humans and devas, they thus eliminate the evil destinies. Among humans and devas there are also perilous and evil deep pits—such categories as the sexless, hermaphrodites, pandakas, and women—which are all called evil destinies among humans. Because these are difficult to rescue, they are called deep pits. Because they are profoundly terrifying, they are called dangerous and defiled, like a perilous and defiled road, and also like a deep pit. Or giving rise to wrong views that slander cause and effect as non-existent is called a defiled deep pit. What is spoken of above all extends to evil results; now they have transcended them all. The older translation collectively says 'closing the doors to all evil destinies', whose meaning also holds.