金剛般若論會釋 1.85

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四、「經言生取無量福聚」等者，解第四攝持福德。初、配屬經，後、逐難釋。經中別言生如是、取如是，合今牒之，故言生、取無量福德。逐難釋云，「生者福正起時」，謂由現行正起福德；「取者即彼滅時，攝持種子故」，謂由先造福德事故，今雖不起，由有福德種子隨逐，現行滅己，身中但有攝持種子。故天親云，「生者能生因故」，現行能熏名能生因；「取者熏修自體果義」，現行滅已，唯有所熏修種子自體，是現行因所生果義。二論無別，或彼論中翻此說。然觀經意，像法欲滅，有持戒等眾生生在彼時，能生實相，即於惡時有惡眾生，不言願生，能生實相。

Fourth, where the sūtra says "[they will] generate and grasp immeasurable aggregates of merit" and so on, explains the fourth [point]: the upholding of merit. The text is divided into two: first, correlation with the sūtra, and second, explanation by answering objections. In the sūtra, it speaks separately of "generating such [merits]" and "grasping such [merits]"; here they are cited together, hence it says "generate and grasp immeasurable merits." In the explanation answering objections, it says: "'generating' means when the merit is properly arising," meaning that merit properly arises through active manifestation; "'grasping' means when that [manifestation] ceases, because it upholds the seeds," meaning that having previously performed deeds of merit, although they do not arise at present, because the seeds of merit follow along, after the active manifestation has ceased, within the body there is only the upholding of the seeds. Therefore, Vasubandhu says: "'generating' is because it is the cause capable of generating," the active manifestation being capable of perfuming and thus called the generating cause; "'grasping' has the meaning of the fruit of the self-nature cultivated by perfuming," for after the active manifestation ceases, there is only the self-nature of the seeds cultivated by perfuming, which has the meaning of the fruit generated by the active-manifestation cause. The two treatises do not differ; or in that treatise, it is explained conversely to this. However, contemplating the intention of the sūtra: when the semblance Dharma is about to be extinguished, sentient beings who possess morality and the like are born in that time and are capable of generating the real mark; namely, in an evil time there are evil sentient beings, yet it does not say "born through aspiration," but rather that they are capable of generating the real mark.