瑜伽論記 23.170

23.170

問曰：三禪下有捨受報以不？解云：賴耶捨五道盡有，六識不定，西國二師不同：一說、三禪以下意識無捨受報，此受生命終，唯在捨受，據阿賴耶受命終受生，爾時意識不得有，若依此釋順此處文，唯四禪已上，方有意識捨受之報；第二師云：諸論諍三禪已下有無，是諍意識捨報有無不諍賴耶，若為此義故，下地意識亦有捨報命終受生。與此文違，今和會之。但約三受別地為言，故說下地有其捨受，理實善不善，皆得捨報，乃至地獄命終受生，亦有捨受不善業感。

Question: Below the third dhyāna, is there equanimous feeling as retribution or not? Explanation: Ālaya[-vijñāna] as equanimity exists completely in all five destinies; the six consciousnesses are indeterminate. Two masters of the Western lands differ: One says: below the third dhyāna, the mental consciousness has no retribution of equanimous feeling; this receiving of life and terminating of life consists solely in equanimous feeling; based on the ālaya receiving life and terminating life, at that time the mental consciousness cannot exist. If one follows this interpretation, it accords with this text: only from the fourth dhyāna upward is there the retribution of equanimous feeling in the mental consciousness. The second master says: when the treatises debate whether it exists or not below the third dhyāna, they debate the existence or non-existence of equanimous retribution in the mental consciousness, not the ālaya. If for the sake of this meaning, the mental consciousness of the lower stages also has equanimous retribution, terminating life and receiving life. This contradicts the present text, so we now reconcile them: it is said merely in terms of the three feelings distinguishing the stages, which is why it is said that the lower stages have their equanimous feeling. In principle, both wholesome and unwholesome [karma] can obtain equanimous retribution, down to the termination of life and receiving of life in hell, which also has equanimous feeling induced by unwholesome karma.