俱舍論頌疏論本 13.83

13.83

見斷識唯轉者，此下四句分別，此初句也。謂見斷識唯能為轉，但為遠因，助尋伺心，能起表也。不為隨轉，於外門心正起業時，見斷無故（外門者，謂修斷）。

"Consciousness abandoned by seeing is only prime": among the four lines of distinction below, this is the first. It means that consciousness abandoned by seeing can only serve as the prime motivator; it only acts as a remote cause, assisting the mind of investigation and examination, and can initiate manifest [karma]. It does not serve as a conformative motivator, because at the time of actually initiating karma with an outwardly directed mind, [defilement] abandoned by seeing is absent (an "outwardly directed [mind]" refers to that abandoned by cultivation).