俱舍論記 23.116

23.116

「然諸先斷至定成樂根」者，然諸先斷欲界修惑一至五等，至得果時，此生必定起勝果道然後命終，必無未起而命終者。即引證言：由此凡位先離下三靜慮染，後依下地入見道者，彼得果已，於現生中必能引起後勝果道。若異此者，聖生第四靜慮已上諸地，應不可說定成樂根。然本論皆說聖生上地定成樂根，故知此身決定能起後勝果道。勝果道者，後果向道，勝前果故，名勝果道。或後果名勝，此道趣彼，名勝果道。問：起後勝果道，為頓為漸？答：漸起非頓。故《婆沙》一百七十一云「頗有無漏四靜慮漸得耶？答：有。以聖者離下地染，及有起勝果道時漸次得故。」又云「頗有無漏三無色漸得耶？答：有。以離下地染，及有起勝果道時漸次得故。」

"However, all who have previously abandoned [...] definitely accomplish the pleasure faculty": However, all who have previously abandoned from one to five grades and so forth of the defilements of the desire realm abandoned by cultivation, upon reaching the attainment of the fruit, will definitely give rise to the path of the superior fruit in this very life before passing away; none will ever pass away without having given rise to it. He then cites proof, stating: "Because of this, if in the stage of an ordinary person one previously detached from the defilements of the lower three dhyānas and later entered darśana-mārga relying on a lower stage, having attained the fruit, in the present life they will definitely be able to induce the subsequent path of the superior fruit. Were it otherwise, when a noble one is born in stages from the fourth dhyāna upward, it should not be said that they definitely accomplish the pleasure faculty (sukhindriya). Yet the fundamental treatises all state that a noble one born in a higher stage definitely accomplishes the pleasure faculty; therefore we know that in this body they can definitely give rise to the subsequent path of the superior fruit." "The path of the superior fruit" is the path of direction toward the subsequent fruit; because it is superior to the prior fruit, it is called the path of the superior fruit. Or, the subsequent fruit is called superior, and because this path tends toward it, it is called the path of the superior fruit. Question: Is the arising of the path of the superior fruit sudden or gradual? Answer: It arises gradually, not suddenly. Thus the Mahāvibhāṣā, fascicle 171, states: "Is there any gradual attainment of the four anāsrava dhyānas? Answer: Yes. Because a noble one detaches from the defilements of lower stages, and there are times when they gradually attain them upon giving rise to the path of the superior fruit." It also states: "Is there any gradual attainment of the three anāsrava formless absorptions? Answer: Yes. Because they detach from the defilements of lower stages, and there are times when they gradually attain them upon giving rise to the path of the superior fruit."