首楞嚴義疏注經 1.442

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《涅槃經》云「一闡云信，提云不俱，信不具足名曰闡提。或云焚燒善根，此即斷善根眾生也。」彌戾車，此云樂垢穢人，此等全不識佛法，即邊邪不正之見。由不正見，即謗正法，死墮邊地，永不識佛。墮，毀也。阿難請意，自得正修，識知真際，即離邪見，庶幾成佛，亦冀展轉令無信根斷善眾生，毀滅邪見、識佛正法。自利利他始為正請。

The *Nirvāṇa Sūtra* says: "*I-cchan* means faith; *tika* means lacking. One whose faith is incomplete is called an *icchantika*. Alternatively, it means burning one's roots of goodness; this refers to sentient beings who have severed their roots of goodness." *Mleccha* is translated here as "people who delight in defilement and impurity"; such people have no understanding whatsoever of the Buddha-Dharma, which is to say, they hold extreme and deviant, incorrect views. Due to incorrect views, they slander the true Dharma, and at death fall into borderlands, never knowing the Buddha. *Duo* (墮) means to destroy. Ānanda's intent in requesting is that, having himself attained correct practice and recognized the limit of reality, he will depart from deviant views and perhaps achieve Buddhahood, while also hoping in turn to cause sentient beings devoid of the root of faith who have severed goodness to destroy their deviant views and recognize the Buddha's true Dharma. Benefiting oneself and benefiting others is what constitutes a proper request.