瑜伽論記 3.212

3.212

Regarding existence serving as three conditions for birth, the text states: "Perfumes and initiates those seeds." (Jing says:) Once the karmic seeds of the existence link have been moisturized, they assist and stimulate the nominal seeds of consciousness and so forth, causing birth and so forth to arise, which is the coexistent condition. (Ji says:) Because past karma perfumed the seeds of consciousness and so forth, they are now called existence, and because they produce the present fruit, they become coexistent. In the passage, "Although long ceased, the fruition proceeds," just as existence when first moisturized is considered with respect to initial birth, because the fruition proceeds, it becomes the long-ceased inducing condition, separated by the time of actual death.