瑜伽論記 19.389

19.389

初問答明，有相為無相因，補闕云：問意無始已來未曾修習知無相智，後時彼智是即無因，云何後生？答：有相亦得為無相因乃至亦如是者，加汝宗中世間智為緣生出世智等，義亦如是，有相為因生於無相，有何過也。勝軍論師見此處文，即言定無本有無漏種子，若其有，此中應言從無始無漏種子為因緣生，何故此處但言從其有相生無相耶？若依護法等即引上論云：有種姓者，在那落迦中，據種子故成就三無漏根，故知本有無漏種子，若爾，此中何故不說本有種子為因，但言有相為無相因耶？答：為欲反詰外人，汝宗許彼世間為緣能生出世義，亦許彼有相為緣能生無相有何過耶？為此義故雖種子有而不宣說以為因緣。

In the first question and answer, it clarifies that having signs serves as the cause for the signless. The Supplement states: The sense of the question is that since beginningless time one has never cultivated or known signless wisdom; later, would that wisdom then be without a cause, and how could it arise later? Answer: "[Wisdom] with signs can also serve as the cause for the signless" up to "it is also like this" means: in your own school, worldly wisdom serves as a condition to produce transworldly wisdom and so forth, and the meaning is also like this; what fault is there if that with signs serves as the cause to produce the signless? When the treatise-master Jayasena saw this passage of the text, he immediately stated that there are definitely no originally existent taintless seeds, for if they existed, it should say here that it arises from beginningless taintless seeds as a cause and condition—why does it only say here that from that which has signs arises the signless? If one follows Dharmapāla and others, one cites the earlier treatise stating: "One who possesses gotra, when in the Naraka hells, on the basis of seeds accomplishes the three taintless faculties"; hence we know there are originally existent taintless seeds. If so, why does it not speak here of originally existent seeds as the cause, but only says that having signs is the cause for the signless? Answer: It is in order to cross-examine the opponent: "Your school accepts that the worldly serves as a condition that can produce the transworldly; then if one also accepts that having signs serves as a condition that can produce the signless, what fault is there?" For this reason, although the seeds exist, they are not declared to be the cause and condition.