瑜伽論記 13.437

13.437

然諸大種如是種性，如是等生下，明此麥穀從水土緣力，後生莖果時不一異，此譬喻多前法同，即莖等果種子麥為緣生後芽等說名種子知法相亦復如是，此因前不相應假法不須種生外類難支，起云前因緣中云以第八為因緣此種如何，故有此文。若不爾，即此合別義，後答如何云如是不相應解滅定等後，方結此前文。

From "yet those great elements having such a gotra arise in such an equal manner" downward: it clarifies that when this barley and grain subsequently produce stalks and fruits through the conditioning force of water and earth, they are neither identical nor different. This simile corresponds broadly to the preceding teaching: that the seeds of the fruit, such as stalks, with barley serving as the condition, produce subsequent shoots and so forth, which are called seeds; one should know that the characteristics of phenomena are also like this. This arose because of an objection from another school: 'Regarding the preceding conditioned provisional dharmas, they do not require seeds to arise; in the preceding causes and conditions, it was said that the eighth consciousness is the cause and condition; how are these seeds [explained]?' Therefore this passage exists. Were it not so, this would combine separate meanings; only after answering 'how are such unassociated dharmas, cessation absorption, and so forth explained?' does it conclude the preceding text.