瑜伽論記 12.96

12.96

From "The bodhisattva is thus skilled in the ultimate truth... up to... all conditioned things" is the fourth clause, on skill in means taking hold of saṃsāra; that is, because the bodhisattva is well versed in tathatā, he has compassion for sentient beings, knowing that through the bonds of affliction and through the assembly of manifold conditions they are free from self, what belongs to self, and all defilements, and that apart from the assembly of afflictions and manifold conditions there are no separate bound sentient beings. Knowing this, he does not abandon saṃsāra to abide in nirvāṇa; out of compassion for sentient beings, he should not permanently extinguish all conditioned things and enter parinirvāṇa, but should enter saṃsāra to teach and transform sentient beings—this is the meaning here.