瑜伽論記 16.509

16.509

答：下二界緣名，生無色前方便緣名，故彼所起無漏緣等亦名緣名，串習方便故爾，未必正緣名起文，名者四蘊名名，但相分，是己之四蘊，緣此四蘊起惑非似本質，故云緣名，此為一釋。

Answer: In the lower two realms, they take names as objects; prior to birth into the formless realm, as a preparatory means, they take names as objects, so those [afflictions] arisen there that take the untainted [as objects] and so forth are also called taking names as objects. It is because of repeated practice of the preparatory means that it is so; it is not necessarily that they directly take names as their object upon arising. The text's 'name' refers to the four aggregates as 'name'; it is merely an objective image (nimittabhāga) that is one's own four aggregates. Taking these four aggregates as objects and giving rise to delusion does not resemble the fundamental substance, and is therefore called taking names as objects. This is one explanation.