瑜伽論記 1.84

1.84

Meditative equipoise (samāhita) has three meanings: first, being balanced, it can lead [into concentration]; second, it leads toward balance; third, it is led by balance. According to the correct view, the first two pertain only to states with mind, while the latter one extends to states without mind. Meditative equipoise and non-meditative-equipoise comprehensively subsume all the qualities of both states with mind and states without mind in the position of concentration; therefore the verse says "associated with" (samprayukta). The word "associated with" explicitly shows the meaning of conjunction (saṃprayoga). The three meanings of conjunction are as explained previously. The essential nature of the stages also has three meanings; there are commentators [who state]: the stages with and without mind have five meanings and a real meaning, each explained as in the Commentary. Thus, it is shown that the stage of the five groups of consciousness, according to what is appropriate in the tainted and untainted states, has both tainted and untainted five aggregates as its nature, because its simultaneous support extends to the seventh and eighth [consciousnesses]. In this treatise, the text is concise and does not take unconditioned dharmas, because in relation to the five consciousnesses there is no subsumption or belonging, and their relation is distant. The mental stage takes all conditioned and unconditioned dharmas as its essential nature, because the sixth mental consciousness can comprehensively take them as objects. The three stages beginning with that with investigation take exclusively conditioned dharmas, extending across tainted and untainted, as their essential nature in accordance with the consciousnesses and dharmas existing in those three upper and lower stages, because the treatise, in presenting the essential nature of the three stages based on the upper and lower stages, does not speak of the three stages being unconditioned. Or, according to what is appropriate, what is realized in those stages also extends to the unconditioned. The stage of meditative equipoise (samāhitabhūmi) extends across the stages of the upper two realms. It takes the qualities of the five aggregates—with mind, without mind, tainted, and untainted—as its essential nature. The treatise states: "Associated with samādhi"—"associated with" has the sense of conjunction and subsumption. The Commentary further states: "These two stages comprehensively subsume all the qualities of both states with mind and states without mind in the position of concentration."