金光明經文句記 2.43

2.43

二、「若關」下，明偏圓得失，二：初、偏，三：初、人天，二：初、人，持心未淳，如猴著鎖。擎一油鉢者，《大經》譬如大眾滿二十五里，王勅一臣擎一油鉢，經由中過勿令傾覆，若棄一滴當斷汝命。復遣一人拔刀隨之。臣受王勅盡心持行，雖見五欲心不貪著。彼經以二十五，諭二十五有。拔刀，諭無常。今文諭凡夫持戒，拔刀可諭三塗罪也。割捨現麁求未來細，如以賤易貴也。

Second, from "if it pertains..." downward, clarifying the strengths and weaknesses of the biased and complete, in two parts: first, the biased, in three parts: first, humans and devas, in two parts: first, humans: their mind of observance is not yet pure, like a monkey wearing a chain. Carrying a bowl of oil—the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra uses the metaphor of a great crowd filling twenty-five li, where a king orders an official to carry a bowl of oil and pass through the midst of them without letting it spill; if a single drop is spilled, his life will be cut off. He also dispatches a man with a drawn sword to follow him. The official receives the king's command and walks with all his mind focused on holding it; though he sees the five desires, his mind feels no greed or attachment. That sūtra uses the twenty-five to symbolize the twenty-five states of existence. The drawn sword symbolizes impermanence. The present text uses it to symbolize an ordinary person keeping precepts; the drawn sword can symbolize the guilt of the three wretched destinies. Severing the coarse of the present to seek the subtle of the future is like exchanging the base for the noble.