瑜伽論記 2.315

2.315

最勝生道者，人天勝因，決定勝道涅槃勝因，四諦是此勝因之境，有依之問。自稱言：不死亂者，我之所事不死淨天教命於我；若有來問不應正答，答則生過，但應隨問而生異答；若依長阿含，一、不知善惡有報無報，故隨問矯亂而答，謂此事如是此事實，此事異，此事不異，此事非異非不異；二、不知他世有無；三、不知何者是善何者不善；四、愚冥闇鈍。此云：依最勝生道，問善不善者，則當阿含第一，他問善惡為有報為無報，亦當第三何者是善何者不善？

"The path to superior birth" refers to the superior cause for humans and devas; "the path to definitive excellence" refers to the superior cause for nirvāṇa. The four truths are the objects of this superior cause, and there are questions based on them. Self-declaring: as for "confused about the deathless," the Deathless Pure Heaven served by me gave me a command: "If someone comes to ask, you should not answer correctly; answering would produce faults. You should only produce divergent answers following the question." If relying on the Dīrgha Āgama: first, not knowing whether wholesome and unwholesome deeds have retribution or lack retribution, one therefore answers equivocally following the question, saying, "This matter is like this; this matter is true; this matter is different; this matter is not different; this matter is neither different nor not different"; second, not knowing whether another world exists or does not exist; third, not knowing what is wholesome and what is unwholesome; fourth, being foolish and dull. Here it says: "relying on the path to superior birth, asking about wholesome and unwholesome," which corresponds to the first in the Āgama—when others ask whether wholesome and unwholesome have retribution or lack retribution—and also corresponds to the third, what is wholesome and what is unwholesome.