俱舍論記 10.205

10.205

「死生唯許至不順死生」者，釋第四句。死、生時心不明利故，其捨受體亦不明利，性相隨順故捨相應。餘之二受性明利故，不順死、生，故雖意識三受相應，而死生時唯捨非餘。又《正理》云「非明利識有死、生義，以死、生時必昧劣故。由此故說下三靜慮唯近分心有死、生理，以根本地無捨受故。」又《婆沙》九十八云「梵輔、梵眾依未至地心命終結生，大梵依靜慮中間心命終結生。所以者何？命終結生心唯捨受相應。捨受唯在初靜慮近分地有，非根本地故。」又准《正理》、《婆沙》，根本地中無有捨受。問：二受望捨強，不得有死、生。善、染亦望無記強，應無有死、生。解云：二受望捨強，不得有死、生。捨體通三性，善、染容死、生。

Regarding "Death and rebirth are accepted only [with indifference] ... does not conform with death and rebirth": this explains the fourth pāda. Because the mind at the time of death and rebirth is not clear and keen, and the nature of the feeling of indifference is likewise not clear and keen, their natures conform with each other, and so [the mind] is associated with indifference. Because the nature of the other two feelings is clear and keen, they do not conform with death and rebirth; therefore, although the mental consciousness is associated with all three feelings, at the time of death and rebirth it is exclusively [associated with] indifference and not the others. Furthermore, the *Nyāyānusāra* says: "It is not the case that a clear and keen consciousness has the property of death and rebirth, because at the time of death and rebirth [the mind] is necessarily dim and weak. Therefore it is said that in the lower three dhyānas, only minds of the preparatory stages (sāmantaka) possess the principle of death and rebirth, because in the fundamental stages there is no feeling of indifference." Furthermore, *Mahāvibhāṣā* 98 says: "The Brahmapurohita and the Brahmapāriṣadya end their lives and take rebirth relying on the mind of the threshold stage (anāgamya); the Mahābrahmā ends his life and takes rebirth relying on the mind of the intermediate dhyāna (dhyānāntara). Why is this? The mind that ends life and takes rebirth is exclusively associated with the feeling of indifference. The feeling of indifference exists only in the preparatory stages of the first dhyāna, not in its fundamental stage." Moreover, according to the *Nyāyānusāra* and *Mahāvibhāṣā*, there is no feeling of indifference in the fundamental stages. Question: If the [other] two feelings are stronger than indifference and thus cannot undergo death and rebirth, then since wholesome and defiled [minds] are also stronger than indeterminate [minds], they ought not to undergo death and rebirth either. The explanation is: The [other] two feelings are stronger than indifference and cannot undergo death and rebirth. However, the nature of indifference spans all three moral natures; wholesome and defiled [minds] do allow for death and rebirth.