瑜伽論記 2.32

2.32

Regarding the statement that there are further those who surpass the Pure Abodes up to being reborn therein: Jing says that just as above the Heaven of Mastery over Transformations by Others there is further the heavenly palace of Māra, which is said to be a higher and superior location, yet it is still subsumed under the Heaven of Mastery over Transformations by Others; here, above the five Pure Abodes, the text simply states that there is further the dwelling of Maheśvara that surpasses the palaces of the Pure Abodes, wherein bodhisattvas of the tenth stage attain rebirth, and does not say that it is subsumed under the Ultimate Form Heaven (Akaniṣṭha), from which it is clearly known not to be subsumed under that stage. Ji says: this refers to the karma of the Great Fruit Heaven generated at the stage of an ordinary person; when one is about to enter the eighth stage, one is born in the Great Fruit Heaven, and uncontaminated cultivation thoroughly perfumes and assists that previously established karma of subsequent retribution, so that upon reaching the culmination of the tenth stage one is finally born there. The Avataṃsaka Sūtra states: 'Because the present recompense and benefit is the reception of the buddha stage, the subsequent recompense and benefit is rebirth in the cognitive sphere of Maheśvara.' Speaking here of 'rebirth,' it is because refining coarse fruit transforms it into what is superior and attains the subtle, and hence it is called 'rebirth'; it is not the case that an uncontaminated mind has the principle of ending life and taking rebirth.