瑜伽論記 9.437

9.437

基云：菩薩下品其實已離惡趣業不受惡趣生，然為利益有情時故往彼生，因即起染受彼報趣，故初劫時有生惡趣，如金翅鳥入海喰龍，食龍既訖上飛空裏，因取龍故脚下有泥，其實無意本在取龍，取龍之時因遂泥污，菩薩亦然。因利有情遂被染繫，故初劫時有生惡趣，若爾，如所引經，若有成世間增上品正見，頌云何通？

Ji says: A lower-grade bodhisattva has actually already departed from the karma of the bad destinies and does not undergo rebirth in the bad destinies; however, for the sake of benefiting sentient beings, they deliberately go to be born there, and because of this, they give rise to defilement and undergo that retributive destiny. Thus, during the first kalpa, there are rebirths in the bad destinies. Just as a garuḍa enters the ocean to eat a dragon, and having eaten the dragon flies up into the sky, its feet become muddy because of capturing the dragon; actually, it had no intention to do so, its original purpose being to capture the dragon, but in capturing the dragon it consequently became stained with mud. The bodhisattva is also like this: because of benefiting sentient beings, they are consequently bound by defilements; thus, during the first kalpa, there are rebirths in the bad destinies. If so, as in the sūtra cited, if one accomplishes the worldly supreme grade of correct view, how does one resolve the verse?